{"id":194134,"date":"2025-03-21T07:05:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kcb-youngster-manzur-chuffed-at-harambee-stars-opportunity\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T07:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:05:37","slug":"kenya-kcb-youngster-manzur-chuffed-at-harambee-stars-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kcb-youngster-manzur-chuffed-at-harambee-stars-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: KCB Youngster Manzur Chuffed At Harambee Stars Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>KCB defender Manzur Okwaro has described it as a &#8216;dream&#8217; to be named in the Harambee Stars final squad for the next two rounds of World Cup qualification matches against Gambia and Gabon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Okwaro, who just recently signed for the bankers is the youngest player in the team. He is also a key member of Kenya&#8217;s Under-20 national team that qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Speaking exclusively to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomasia.net\/news\/football\/it-is-a-dream-for-me-to-be-part-of-the-squad-manzur-okwaro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telecomasia.net<\/a>, Okwaro says he is looking forward to learn from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503200421.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 KCB defender Manzur Okwaro has described it as a &#8216;dream&#8217; to be named in the Harambee Stars final squad for the next two rounds of World Cup qualification matches against Gambia and Gabon. Okwaro, who just recently signed for the bankers is the youngest player in the team. He is also a key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":194135,"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":[258,256,31291,10442,21378,4688,430,50915,257,9107,254,9435,8744],"class_list":["post-194134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chuffed","tag-harambee","tag-kcb","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-manzur","tag-news","tag-opportunity","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-youngster"],"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\/194134","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=194134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}