{"id":248849,"date":"2026-11-01T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-why-bayern-v-ajax-in-nairobi-is-perfect-tribute-to-former-pm-raila-odinga\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T23:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T21:00:19","slug":"kenya-ruto-why-bayern-v-ajax-in-nairobi-is-perfect-tribute-to-former-pm-raila-odinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-why-bayern-v-ajax-in-nairobi-is-perfect-tribute-to-former-pm-raila-odinga\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto &#8211; Why Bayern V Ajax in Nairobi Is Perfect Tribute to Former PM Raila Odinga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">NAIROBI \u2014 President William Ruto believes there could be no better way to honour former Prime Minister Raila Odinga than a blockbuster tie between Bayern Munich and Ajax at a stadium named after him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Ruto said January&#8217;s fixture between the two giants &#8212; to open the curtains to the Raila Odinga International Stadium (Talanta Sports City) &#8212; is a poetic one with regards to the former leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;There is a quiet poetry in this fixture. Raila studied in Germany,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610300524.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 President William Ruto believes there could be no better way to honour former Prime Minister Raila Odinga than a blockbuster tie between Bayern Munich and Ajax at a stadium named after him. Ruto said January&#8217;s fixture between the two giants &#8212; to open the curtains to the Raila Odinga International Stadium (Talanta Sports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":248850,"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":[258,256,55755,37206,4688,430,259,257,6519,13099,10917,11238,254,10225],"class_list":["post-248849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ajax","tag-bayern","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-odinga","tag-perfect","tag-raila","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tribute"],"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\/248849","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=248849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}