{"id":214634,"date":"2025-11-23T21:33:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-rwanda-junior-stars-beat-rwanda-to-resurrect-afcon-hopes-at-cecafa-regional-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:33:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:33:38","slug":"kenya-rwanda-junior-stars-beat-rwanda-to-resurrect-afcon-hopes-at-cecafa-regional-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-rwanda-junior-stars-beat-rwanda-to-resurrect-afcon-hopes-at-cecafa-regional-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya\/Rwanda: Junior Stars Beat Rwanda to Resurrect Afcon Hopes At Cecafa Regional Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>The national under 17 football team came from a goal down to beat Rwanda in the second match of their Cecafa Regional qualifiers in Addis Ababa on Friday afternoon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Junior Stars went into the break trailing by a goal before Nasasiro Trevor and Nicholas Ochola scored in the second half to earn them all the three points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Junior Amavubi Stars shot into the lead in the 36th minute courtesy of Nshimiyimana Olivier, the forward sneaking into the box to tap in at the far post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Coach&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210464.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 The national under 17 football team came from a goal down to beat Rwanda in the second match of their Cecafa Regional qualifiers in Addis Ababa on Friday afternoon. The Junior Stars went into the break trailing by a goal before Nasasiro Trevor and Nicholas Ochola scored in the second half to earn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":214635,"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":[9488,258,256,5065,17077,10002,9730,430,15883,257,7318,4268,28580,4702,254,9435],"class_list":["post-214634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beat","tag-cecafa","tag-hopes","tag-junior","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyarwanda","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-regional","tag-resurrect","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars"],"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\/214634","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=214634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}