{"id":242643,"date":"2026-08-30T07:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-fkf-admit-challenge-in-elevating-number-of-kenyan-coaches-to-elite-level\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T07:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:10:20","slug":"kenya-fkf-admit-challenge-in-elevating-number-of-kenyan-coaches-to-elite-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-fkf-admit-challenge-in-elevating-number-of-kenyan-coaches-to-elite-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: FKF Admit Challenge in Elevating Number of Kenyan Coaches to Elite Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">NAIROBI \u2014 Football Kenya Federation (FKF) technical director Francis Kimanzi concedes it is difficult for many local coaches to upgrade to Caf A license due to limited slots and opportunities available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The former Harambee Stars head coach said that the maximum number of slots provided by the Confederation of African Football (Caf) is 25 &#8211; or in some cases, 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">&#8220;You know the number that is always given by CAF cannot exceed 25 because of the quality and of the class and what we want to do and in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608280575.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>NAIROBI \u2014 Football Kenya Federation (FKF) technical director Francis Kimanzi concedes it is difficult for many local coaches to upgrade to Caf A license due to limited slots and opportunities available. The former Harambee Stars head coach said that the maximum number of slots provided by the Confederation of African Football (Caf) is 25 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":242644,"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":[23337,258,256,7485,7458,52325,6842,9619,4688,430,4524,6431,257,7043,254],"class_list":["post-242643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-admit","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenge","tag-coaches","tag-elevating","tag-elite","tag-fkf","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-level","tag-news","tag-number","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/242643","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=242643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}