{"id":233397,"date":"2026-05-16T03:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-kenya-teen-cranes-name-provisional-squad-for-kenya-double-header-in-u-17-world-cup-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T03:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:14:55","slug":"uganda-kenya-teen-cranes-name-provisional-squad-for-kenya-double-header-in-u-17-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-kenya-teen-cranes-name-provisional-squad-for-kenya-double-header-in-u-17-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\/Kenya: Teen Cranes Name Provisional Squad for Kenya Double-Header in U-17 World Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Uganda U-17 Women&#8217;s National Team, also known as the Teen Cranes, has announced a provisional squad ahead of their second-round FIFA U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup 2026 qualifiers against Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Head coach Sheryl Ulanda Botes has invited the selected players to begin residential camp on Thursday at the FUFA Technical Centre in Njeru as preparations intensify for the two-legged tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Most of the players included in the squad were part of the team that recorded a dominant 6-1 aggregate victory over&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150590.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>The Uganda U-17 Women&#8217;s National Team, also known as the Teen Cranes, has announced a provisional squad ahead of their second-round FIFA U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup 2026 qualifiers against Kenya. Head coach Sheryl Ulanda Botes has invited the selected players to begin residential camp on Thursday at the FUFA Technical Centre in Njeru as preparations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":233398,"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":[258,256,11165,6674,13751,4688,430,257,13537,7318,254,8984,15459,9489,29000,5093],"class_list":["post-233397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cranes","tag-cup","tag-doubleheader","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-provisional","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad","tag-teen","tag-u17","tag-ugandakenya","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\/233397","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=233397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}