{"id":246220,"date":"2026-10-02T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-why-raila-odinga-international-stadium-is-in-same-class-with-emirates-stadium\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:00:16","slug":"kenya-why-raila-odinga-international-stadium-is-in-same-class-with-emirates-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-why-raila-odinga-international-stadium-is-in-same-class-with-emirates-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;Why Raila Odinga International Stadium Is in Same Class With Emirates Stadium&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">NAIROBI \u2014 National Assembly Sports Committee chair Dan Wanyama believes Kenya have broken a world record for building a modern stadium like Talanta Sports in just under four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Comparing the 60,000-seater facility to Arsenal&#8217;s Emirates Stadium, Wanyama says Kenyans should be proud of what the Kenya Kwanza government have achieved in erecting the towering structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">&#8220;We want to appreciate the works that has been done and that this is actually something that Kenyans should be proud of&#8230;that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610020376.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 National Assembly Sports Committee chair Dan Wanyama believes Kenya have broken a world record for building a modern stadium like Talanta Sports in just under four years. Comparing the 60,000-seater facility to Arsenal&#8217;s Emirates Stadium, Wanyama says Kenyans should be proud of what the Kenya Kwanza government have achieved in erecting the towering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":246221,"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":[258,256,6285,3369,4337,4688,430,257,6519,10917,254,9328],"class_list":["post-246220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-class","tag-emirates","tag-international","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-odinga","tag-raila","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stadium"],"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\/246220","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=246220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}