{"id":133012,"date":"2026-03-04T08:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/starlets-to-play-hosts-ivory-coast-today-in-wafcon-build-up\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:02:46","slug":"starlets-to-play-hosts-ivory-coast-today-in-wafcon-build-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/starlets-to-play-hosts-ivory-coast-today-in-wafcon-build-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlets to play hosts Ivory Coast today in WAFCON build up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s national women\u2019s \u00a0soccer team, Harambee Starlets, will face hosts Ivory Coast tonight in their 2nd<\/p>\n<p>international friendly match at the Alassane Ouattara Ebimp\u00e9 Olympic Stadium starting at 10pm EAT.<\/p>\n<p>Starlets will use this as a build-up for the African Cup of Nations ( WAFCON) from 17th of this month in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The beldine Odemba squad of 25 players will be keen to pick a positive result after going down 2-0 to Benin in<\/p>\n<p>their first friendly match last Monday,before shifting their training base to Marseille, ahead of the continental<\/p>\n<p>showpiece.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlets\u2019 squad consists of 12 Europe-based players, while the remaining 13 were drawn from the local leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya will play hosts Morocco on the 17th \u00a0 of this month in Group A opener before facing Senegal and Algeria in<\/p>\n<p>the other two fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlets are making their second appearance in the tournament since they first participated in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/starlets-to-play-hosts-ivory-coast-today-in-wafcon-build-up\/\">Starlets to play hosts Ivory Coast today in WAFCON build up<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s national women\u2019s \u00a0soccer team, Harambee Starlets, will face hosts Ivory Coast tonight in their 2nd international friendly match at the Alassane Ouattara Ebimp\u00e9 Olympic Stadium starting at 10pm EAT. Starlets will use this as a build-up for the African Cup of Nations ( WAFCON) from 17th of this month in Morocco. The beldine Odemba [&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-133012","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\/133012","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=133012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}