{"id":132755,"date":"2026-03-02T12:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/starlets-to-face-benin-tonight-in-wafcon-preps\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:02:48","slug":"starlets-to-face-benin-tonight-in-wafcon-preps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/starlets-to-face-benin-tonight-in-wafcon-preps\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlets to face Benin tonight in WAFCON preps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Women\u2019s soccer team Harambee Starlets are set to play Benin tonight in a first international friendly match at  the  F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny Boun stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Starlets who arrived in Ivory Coast two days ago will use the 8PM Kenyan time kick-off match as a build-up for their 2nd appearance at the Women\u2019s African Cup of Nations ( WAFCON),  which will kick off in two weeks\u2019 time in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya will also host Ivory Coast on Wednesday in their 2nd friendly match before travelling to Miramas in Maraseille, France, for residential training until 15th this month .<\/p>\n<p>Starlets under head coach Beldine Odemba will open their 2026 WAFCON campaign in group A against hosts Morocco on 17th this month before taking on Senegal and Algeria on 20th and 23rd March respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/starlets-to-face-benin-tonight-in-wafcon-preps\/\">Starlets to face Benin tonight in WAFCON preps<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Women\u2019s soccer team Harambee Starlets are set to play Benin tonight in a first international friendly match at the F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny Boun stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Starlets who arrived in Ivory Coast two days ago will use the 8PM Kenyan time kick-off match as a build-up for their 2nd appearance at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}