{"id":228739,"date":"2026-03-28T01:24:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-junior-starlets-held-in-goalless-stalemate-as-world-cup-qualifiers-preparations-intensify\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T01:24:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:24:55","slug":"kenya-junior-starlets-held-in-goalless-stalemate-as-world-cup-qualifiers-preparations-intensify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-junior-starlets-held-in-goalless-stalemate-as-world-cup-qualifiers-preparations-intensify\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Junior Starlets Held in Goalless Stalemate As World Cup Qualifiers Preparations Intensify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Kenya&#8217;s Junior Starlets continued their build-up to the FIFA U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers with a goalless draw against Ulinzi Starlets in a friendly match played at the Kasarani Annex on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The closely contested encounter offered the young Kenyan side a valuable opportunity to test their readiness against experienced opposition, with both teams creating chances but ultimately unable to find the breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The match was characterized by disciplined defending and structured&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270379.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 Kenya&#8217;s Junior Starlets continued their build-up to the FIFA U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers with a goalless draw against Ulinzi Starlets in a friendly match played at the Kasarani Annex on Friday. The closely contested encounter offered the young Kenyan side a valuable opportunity to test their readiness against experienced opposition, with both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":228740,"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":[258,256,6674,20126,7297,10475,9730,4688,430,257,10078,7318,254,11215,12425,5093],"class_list":["post-228739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-goalless","tag-held","tag-intensify","tag-junior","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-preparations","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stalemate","tag-starlets","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\/228739","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=228739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}