{"id":226900,"date":"2026-03-15T00:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-maiden-call-up-for-ayimba-as-bling-names-shujaa-squad-for-world-7s-division-2-tourney\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:55:10","slug":"kenya-maiden-call-up-for-ayimba-as-bling-names-shujaa-squad-for-world-7s-division-2-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-maiden-call-up-for-ayimba-as-bling-names-shujaa-squad-for-world-7s-division-2-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Maiden Call-Up for Ayimba As &#8216;Bling&#8217; Names Shujaa Squad for World 7s Division 2 Tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Exciting youngster Gabriel Ayimba is in line for his Shujaa debut after he was named in the squad for next weekend&#8217;s (March 27-28) World Rugby 7s Division, second leg in Montevideo, Uruguay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Ayimba, son to legendary Shujaa player and coach Benjamin Ayimba, is part of an exciting 14-man team that will be travelling to South America for the prestigious tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Strathmore University Leos player was initially named in a 25-man squad for last month&#8217;s Division 2 first leg in Nairobi&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130384.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 Exciting youngster Gabriel Ayimba is in line for his Shujaa debut after he was named in the squad for next weekend&#8217;s (March 27-28) World Rugby 7s Division, second leg in Montevideo, Uruguay. Ayimba, son to legendary Shujaa player and coach Benjamin Ayimba, is part of an exciting 14-man team that will be travelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":226901,"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":[258,256,53906,53907,13124,13653,4688,430,6965,8650,257,16184,254,8984,7021,5093],"class_list":["post-226900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ayimba","tag-bling","tag-callup","tag-division","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-maiden","tag-names","tag-news","tag-shujaa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad","tag-tourney","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\/226900","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=226900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}