{"id":206732,"date":"2025-09-10T18:29:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/tanzania-kenya-world-cup-qualifier-kenya-crush-seychelles-as-niger-stun-tanzania\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:29:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:29:50","slug":"tanzania-kenya-world-cup-qualifier-kenya-crush-seychelles-as-niger-stun-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/tanzania-kenya-world-cup-qualifier-kenya-crush-seychelles-as-niger-stun-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania\/Kenya: World Cup Qualifier &#8211; Kenya Crush Seychelles As Niger Stun Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">With Morocco and Tunisia already qualified, the battle for the remaining automatic slots and four play-off spots intensified across multiple groups<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Africa&#8217;s 2026 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA World Cup<\/a><\/strong> qualifying campaign continued on Tuesday with big wins for Kenya and Namibia, and a major upset as Niger defeated Tanzania away from home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">With Morocco and Tunisia already qualified, the battle for the remaining automatic slots and four play-off spots intensified across multiple groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509100260.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>With Morocco and Tunisia already qualified, the battle for the remaining automatic slots and four play-off spots intensified across multiple groups Africa&#8217;s 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign continued on Tuesday with big wins for Kenya and Namibia, and a major upset as Niger defeated Tanzania away from home. With Morocco and Tunisia already qualified, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":206733,"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":[258,256,10329,6674,4688,430,257,404,8496,14471,254,12552,746,17016,5093],"class_list":["post-206732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crush","tag-cup","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-niger","tag-qualifier","tag-seychelles","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stun","tag-tanzania","tag-tanzaniakenya","tag-world"],"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\/206732","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=206732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}