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Nairobi \u2014 The national men’s football team Harambee Stars wrapped up its 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier with a 3-0 defeat away to Ivory Coast in Abidjan on Tuesday night.<\/em><\/p>\n The result meant that Ivory Coast booked a spot in next year’s global showpiece to be hosted in USA, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n Senegal also qualified after thrashing Mauritania 3-0, joined by South Africa who whipped Rwanda 3-0.<\/p>\n Notable teams that missed out on direct qualification are Nigeria and Cameroon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 The national men’s football team Harambee Stars wrapped up its 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier with a 3-0 defeat away to Ivory Coast in Abidjan on Tuesday night. The result meant that Ivory Coast booked a spot in next year’s global showpiece to be hosted in USA, Canada and Mexico. Senegal also qualified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":209963,"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":[2554,258,256,6560,6674,5959,11851,10442,6559,430,10434,257,254,9435,26487,8346,5093],"class_list":["post-209962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abidjan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coast","tag-cup","tag-divoire","tag-hand","tag-harambee","tag-ivory","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyacote","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-thrashing","tag-ticket","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\/209962","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=209962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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