{"id":193960,"date":"2025-03-19T15:49:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/gambia-kenya-harambee-stars-arrive-in-abidjan-ahead-of-gambia-wcq-duel\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:49:40","slug":"gambia-kenya-harambee-stars-arrive-in-abidjan-ahead-of-gambia-wcq-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/gambia-kenya-harambee-stars-arrive-in-abidjan-ahead-of-gambia-wcq-duel\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia\/Kenya: Harambee Stars Arrive in Abidjan Ahead of Gambia WCQ Duel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>National football team Harambee Stars arrived in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Tuesday night ahead of their 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification match against The Gambia on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Gambia are playing their home matches in neighboring Ivory Coast as none of their home pitches have been certified by CAF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Stars left the country Tuesday morning, with only three players expected to link up with them in Abidjan. Coach Benni McCarthy will only have a day of training with his entire squad before the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503190264.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 National football team Harambee Stars arrived in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Tuesday night ahead of their 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification match against The Gambia on Thursday. Gambia are playing their home matches in neighboring Ivory Coast as none of their home pitches have been certified by CAF. Stars left the country Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2554,258,256,7019,7399,6183,6555,19032,6408,50896,10442,1218,257,254,9435,40481],"class_list":["post-193960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-abidjan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-arrive","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-duel","tag-gambia","tag-gambiakenya","tag-harambee","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-wcq"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193960","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}