{"id":198541,"date":"2025-05-21T12:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-we-want-to-conquer-cecafa-region-after-afcon-experience-says-coach-akhulia\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:42:19","slug":"kenya-we-want-to-conquer-cecafa-region-after-afcon-experience-says-coach-akhulia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-we-want-to-conquer-cecafa-region-after-afcon-experience-says-coach-akhulia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: We Want to Conquer Cecafa Region After Afcon Experience, Says Coach Akhulia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Rising Stars assistant coach Anthony AKhulia says the team&#8217;s experience at the Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt has inspired them to try and conquer the East African region to ensure they constantly qualify for the tournament.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Rising Stars played at the tournament for the first time ever after finishing second in the CECAFA regional qualifiers, losing to Tanzania in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">In Cairo, the team picked up a point off a last day 2-2 draw with Nigeria, while they lost to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505210210.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 Rising Stars assistant coach Anthony AKhulia says the team&#8217;s experience at the Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt has inspired them to try and conquer the East African region to ensure they constantly qualify for the tournament. Rising Stars played at the tournament for the first time ever after finishing second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":198542,"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":[9488,258,256,51405,17077,7346,20112,8086,4688,430,257,6324,254],"class_list":["post-198541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akhulia","tag-cecafa","tag-coach","tag-conquer","tag-experience","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-region","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/198541","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=198541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}