{"id":234847,"date":"2026-05-30T03:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-harambee-stars-friendlies-against-kyrgyzstan-and-pakistan-cancelled\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T03:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:45:55","slug":"kenya-harambee-stars-friendlies-against-kyrgyzstan-and-pakistan-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-harambee-stars-friendlies-against-kyrgyzstan-and-pakistan-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Harambee Stars Friendlies Against Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The national football team, Harambee Stars, will play Lesotho in upcoming international friendlies next month, in June.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In a statement, the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) said Benni McCarthy&#8217;s charges will play the southern Africans on June 4 (next Thursday) at the Lucas Moripe Stadium in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The two teams butt heads again three days later (on Sunday) at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The new development means that the Stars&#8217; earlier friendlies against Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan have been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605290539.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 The national football team, Harambee Stars, will play Lesotho in upcoming international friendlies next month, in June. In a statement, the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) said Benni McCarthy&#8217;s charges will play the southern Africans on June 4 (next Thursday) at the Lucas Moripe Stadium in Pretoria. The two teams butt heads again three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":234848,"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":[258,256,8052,17202,10442,4688,430,47628,257,5174,254,9435],"class_list":["post-234847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cancelled","tag-friendlies","tag-harambee","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars"],"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\/234847","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=234847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}