{"id":248892,"date":"2026-11-02T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-the-rebound-girls-kayole-starlets-eager-to-bounce-back-from-kibera-defeat\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:00:19","slug":"kenya-the-rebound-girls-kayole-starlets-eager-to-bounce-back-from-kibera-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-the-rebound-girls-kayole-starlets-eager-to-bounce-back-from-kibera-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: The Rebound Girls &#8211; Kayole Starlets Eager to Bounce Back From Kibera Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">NAIROBI \u2014 Following a hard-fought and frustrating 2-0 defeat to Kibera Soccer Women&#8217;s Team, Kayole Starlets head coach George Kimani has remained defiant, pointing to missed opportunities in the final third as the decisive factor in a match his side otherwise controlled in patches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Despite creating a flurry of goal-scoring chances and registering more shots on target than their opponents, Kayole&#8217;s inability to capitalize in front of goal ultimately proved costly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The defeat leaves Kayole&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611020225.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 Following a hard-fought and frustrating 2-0 defeat to Kibera Soccer Women&#8217;s Team, Kayole Starlets head coach George Kimani has remained defiant, pointing to missed opportunities in the final third as the decisive factor in a match his side otherwise controlled in patches. Despite creating a flurry of goal-scoring chances and registering more shots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":248893,"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":[258,256,4420,6531,21036,7010,47896,4688,430,22924,257,17973,254,12425],"class_list":["post-248892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bounce","tag-defeat","tag-eager","tag-girls","tag-kayole","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kibera","tag-news","tag-rebound","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starlets"],"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\/248892","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=248892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}