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NAIROBI \u2014 \u00a0National women under 20 football coach Jackline Juma says playing against male teams has toughened her girls for Saturday’s World Cup qualifier against Tanzania.<\/em><\/p>\n Juma says the friendlies have boosted morale within the squad and improved competitiveness within the squad.<\/p>\n “I think it was a good chance to give us the competition we needed, given that we were working a lot the first two weeks on match fitness. So, I can say the performance was good. Winning against the boys one match,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> NAIROBI \u2014 \u00a0National women under 20 football coach Jackline Juma says playing against male teams has toughened her girls for Saturday’s World Cup qualifier against Tanzania. Juma says the friendlies have boosted morale within the squad and improved competitiveness within the squad. “I think it was a good chance to give us the competition we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":223029,"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":[258,256,6674,4688,430,6097,13445,257,10736,6805,8496,10473,254,8492,6460,5093],"class_list":["post-223028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-male","tag-news","tag-played","tag-prepare","tag-qualifier","tag-side","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teams","tag-womens","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\/223028","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=223028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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