{"id":203718,"date":"2025-08-01T03:44:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-shabanas-odongo-eager-to-have-a-taste-of-national-team-action\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T03:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:44:21","slug":"kenya-shabanas-odongo-eager-to-have-a-taste-of-national-team-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-shabanas-odongo-eager-to-have-a-taste-of-national-team-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Shabana&#8217;s Odongo Eager to Have a Taste of National Team Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Austin Odongo, Kenya&#8217;s youngest player at the Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) says he is ready to take his chance and prove his worth ahead of the tournament which kicks off on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Odongo, 19, who turns out for FKF Premier League side Shabana FC, was a late inclusion into the team and took his chance with both hands. He impressed coach Benni McCarthy and his staff and managed to make the final 25-man squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomasia.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telecomasia.net<\/a>, the forward says he is looking forward to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507310522.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 Austin Odongo, Kenya&#8217;s youngest player at the Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) says he is ready to take his chance and prove his worth ahead of the tournament which kicks off on Sunday. Odongo, 19, who turns out for FKF Premier League side Shabana FC, was a late inclusion into the team and took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":203719,"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":[6394,258,256,21036,4688,430,6687,257,52000,51999,254,12861,7142],"class_list":["post-203718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eager","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-odongo","tag-shabanas","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taste","tag-team"],"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\/203718","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=203718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}