{"id":240765,"date":"2026-08-10T06:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-why-beldine-odemba-is-not-to-blame-for-harambee-starlets-disastrous-wafcon-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:30:05","slug":"kenya-why-beldine-odemba-is-not-to-blame-for-harambee-starlets-disastrous-wafcon-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-why-beldine-odemba-is-not-to-blame-for-harambee-starlets-disastrous-wafcon-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;Why Beldine Odemba Is Not to Blame for Harambee Starlets&#8217; Disastrous Wafcon Campaign&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Harambee Starlets skipper Mwanahalima &#8216;Dogo&#8217; Adam says head coach Beldine Odemba is not to blame for the team&#8217;s diabolical campaign at the Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Adam says the burden of responsibility lies with the playing unit who did not implement the instructions of the gaffer on the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">&#8220;The technical bench played their part&#8230;if there&#8217;s someone to blame, then it is us the players. We did not rise the occasion, at the individual and at the collective level&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608070461.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Harambee Starlets skipper Mwanahalima &#8216;Dogo&#8217; Adam says head coach Beldine Odemba is not to blame for the team&#8217;s diabolical campaign at the Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) in Morocco. Adam says the burden of responsibility lies with the playing unit who did not implement the instructions of the gaffer on the field. &#8220;The technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,55106,8953,4302,30556,10442,4688,430,257,46474,254,12425,24869],"class_list":["post-240765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beldine","tag-blame","tag-campaign","tag-disastrous","tag-harambee","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-odemba","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starlets","tag-wafcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240765","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=240765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}