{"id":180385,"date":"2024-09-11T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-i-am-not-okay-penniless-firat-bemoans-unfair-criticism-of-harambee-stars\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T19:29:08","slug":"kenya-i-am-not-okay-penniless-firat-bemoans-unfair-criticism-of-harambee-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-i-am-not-okay-penniless-firat-bemoans-unfair-criticism-of-harambee-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;I Am Not Okay&#8217; &#8211; Penniless Firat Bemoans Unfair Criticism of Harambee Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Harambee Stars head coach Engin Firat has lamented the consistent unfair criticism of the side, amidst him going for nine months without pay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Firat said his team have become a punching bag for different quarters with no regard for the challenging conditions they have had to endure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;What makes me sad is that we have no real support&#8230;all I hear is bla! bla! bla! In Uganda, I was told 5000 people would come but those who came I can count on one hand,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">Firat added: &#8220;I am also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409110616.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Harambee Stars head coach Engin Firat has lamented the consistent unfair criticism of the side, amidst him going for nine months without pay. Firat said his team have become a punching bag for different quarters with no regard for the challenging conditions they have had to endure. &#8220;What makes me sad is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":180386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,17458,11451,39992,10442,4688,430,257,35659,254,9435,15329],"class_list":["post-180385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bemoans","tag-criticism","tag-firat","tag-harambee","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-penniless","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-unfair"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}