{"id":16572,"date":"2026-01-11T06:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/16572\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:31:07","slug":"kenyas-junior-starlets-to-face-namibia-in-2026-fifa-womens-u17-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/16572\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya\u2019s Junior Starlets to face Namibia in 2026 FIFA Women\u2019s U17 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Junior-Starlets-coach-Mildred-Cheche.jpg\"\/><img width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Junior-Starlets-coach-Mildred-Cheche.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>            <\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s Junior Starlets will face Namibia in the first round of the 2026 FIFA Women\u2019s U17 World Cup Qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p><a\/>Should the team progress, they will face either Uganda or Zimbabwe in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the second round will then play either Botswana\/ Tanzania\/ Central African Republic\/South Africa in the final round.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Starlets under the guidance of coach Mildred Cheche will seek to redeem themselves after missing out in this year\u2019s tournament in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 edition will still be staged in Morocco in October \u2013 November.<\/p>\n<p>Order of play<\/p>\n<p>First Round \u2013 April<\/p>\n<p>Second Round May<\/p>\n<p>Third Round \u2013 July<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenya\u2019s Junior Starlets will face Namibia in the first round of the 2026 FIFA Women\u2019s U17 World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102],"class_list":{"0":"post-16572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-namibia","8":"tag-namibia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}