{"id":193972,"date":"2025-03-19T19:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/gambia-kenya-scorpions-stretch-muscle-ahead-of-kenya-crunch-clash\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T19:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:02:58","slug":"gambia-kenya-scorpions-stretch-muscle-ahead-of-kenya-crunch-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/gambia-kenya-scorpions-stretch-muscle-ahead-of-kenya-crunch-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia\/Kenya: Scorpions Stretch Muscle Ahead of Kenya Crunch Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Gambia senior national team are currently stretching their muscles ahead of their crucial 2026 World Cup qualifier match against Kenya on 20th March 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Gaffer Jonathan Mckinstry held his first training session on Monday 16th March 2025 with fifteen (15) players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The remaining players are expected to arrive yesterday, Tuesday, 17th March 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Scorpions will use their training sessions to prepare themselves ready before their global biggest football showpiece qualifier match against the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503190516.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>The Gambia senior national team are currently stretching their muscles ahead of their crucial 2026 World Cup qualifier match against Kenya on 20th March 2025. Gaffer Jonathan Mckinstry held his first training session on Monday 16th March 2025 with fifteen (15) players. The remaining players are expected to arrive yesterday, Tuesday, 17th March 2025. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193973,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,7019,7647,11657,50896,4688,430,21424,257,20966,254,18089],"class_list":["post-193972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-clash","tag-crunch","tag-gambiakenya","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-muscle","tag-news","tag-scorpions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stretch"],"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\/193972","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=193972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}