{"id":210718,"date":"2025-10-22T00:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/kenya-tunisia-nairobi-united-eye-strong-finish-in-tunis-after-upsetting-etoile-du-sahel-in-confederations-cup-tie\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:24:05","slug":"kenya-tunisia-nairobi-united-eye-strong-finish-in-tunis-after-upsetting-etoile-du-sahel-in-confederations-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/kenya-tunisia-nairobi-united-eye-strong-finish-in-tunis-after-upsetting-etoile-du-sahel-in-confederations-cup-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya\/Tunisia: Nairobi United Eye Strong Finish in Tunis After Upsetting Etoile Du Sahel in Confederations Cup Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\"><em>NAIROBI, Kenya, October 21, 2025 &#8211; Nairobi United captain Brian Omondi Mzee says Sunday&#8217;s 2-0 win over Tunisia&#8217;s \u00c9toile Sportive du Sahel in the CAF Confederation Cup first leg was not only a statement victory but also a huge morale boost as they prepare for the return fixture in Tunis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Omondi admitted that the match was physically demanding but ultimately rewarding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t easy playing against a quality side like \u00c9toile, especially with Alphonse (Omija) in the defence. But we stayed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510210559.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, October 21, 2025 &#8211; Nairobi United captain Brian Omondi Mzee says Sunday&#8217;s 2-0 win over Tunisia&#8217;s \u00c9toile Sportive du Sahel in the CAF Confederation Cup first leg was not only a statement victory but also a huge morale boost as they prepare for the return fixture in Tunis. Omondi admitted that the match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":210719,"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":[642],"tags":[258,256,7444,6674,14407,9381,12239,11727,259,257,6346,254,6948,8465,643,653,7866,36306],"class_list":["post-210718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confederations","tag-cup","tag-etoile","tag-eye","tag-finish","tag-kenyatunisia","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-sahel","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strong","tag-tie","tag-tunis","tag-tunisia-news","tag-united","tag-upsetting"],"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\/210718","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}