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NAIROBI \u2014 Kenya’s Rising Stars took a crucial step towards the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games after edging Ivory Coast 2-1 in the first leg of their second-round qualification tie at Nyayo National Stadium on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
After a cagey first half that produced no goals, Kenya finally broke the deadlock in the 65th minute through Henry Omollo, sending the home fans into celebration.<\/p>\n
However, the lead lasted just nine minutes, with Oumar Konate restoring parity for the Ivorians to set up a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> NAIROBI \u2014 Kenya’s Rising Stars took a crucial step towards the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games after edging Ivory Coast 2-1 in the first leg of their second-round qualification tie at Nyayo National Stadium on Wednesday evening. After a cagey first half that produced no goals, Kenya finally broke the deadlock in the 65th minute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249903,"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":[1087],"tags":[258,256,11363,6560,6183,6555,5959,7421,7126,6559,1218,10434,8262,257,12022,6678,10295,254,9435,2080],"class_list":["post-249902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-closer","tag-coast","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-dream","tag-edge","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-kenyacote","tag-late","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-rising","tag-sink","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-strike"],"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\/249902","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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