{"id":234605,"date":"2026-05-27T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-kenya-odemba-names-harambee-starlets-squad-for-zambia-four-nations-tournament\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:54:49","slug":"zambia-kenya-odemba-names-harambee-starlets-squad-for-zambia-four-nations-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-kenya-odemba-names-harambee-starlets-squad-for-zambia-four-nations-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia\/Kenya: Odemba Names Harambee Starlets Squad for Zambia Four Nations Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Harambee Starlets head coach Beldine Odemba has unveiled a 24-woman provisional squad tasked with flying the Kenyan flag at the upcoming Four Nations Tournament in Zambia scheduled for next month.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The invitational showpiece serves as a critical tactical testing ground for the national team as they ramp up intense preparations for the 2026 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Odemba has largely kept faith with the trusted core of players who represented the country during&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605270242.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 Harambee Starlets head coach Beldine Odemba has unveiled a 24-woman provisional squad tasked with flying the Kenyan flag at the upcoming Four Nations Tournament in Zambia scheduled for next month. The invitational showpiece serves as a critical tactical testing ground for the national team as they ramp up intense preparations for the 2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234606,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,10442,8650,4301,257,46474,254,8984,12425,6966,4709,881,52092],"class_list":["post-234605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-harambee","tag-names","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-odemba","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad","tag-starlets","tag-tournament","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambiakenya"],"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\/234605","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}