{"id":140313,"date":"2026-05-08T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kevin-wangaya-named-sportpesa-premier-league-player-of-the-month-of-april\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:03:15","slug":"kevin-wangaya-named-sportpesa-premier-league-player-of-the-month-of-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kevin-wangaya-named-sportpesa-premier-league-player-of-the-month-of-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Wangaya named Sportpesa Premier League Player of the month of April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nairobi United forward Kevin Wangaya has been named the Sportpesa Football Kenya Federation Premier League Player of the month of April.<\/strong><br \/>\nWangaya has been in red hot form for his side scoring opening goals that have earned the team crucial three points this season.<br \/>\nThat instinct to land the opening blow earned his side valuable points in April but has also come with individual recognition after he was named the SportPesa Premier League Player of the Month for April.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya U20 international becomes the second youngest winner of the accolade, following in the footsteps of Kariobangi Sharks\u2019 teenage star Humphrey Aroko, 17, who claimed the award in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really honoured to win this award,\u201d said Wangaya. \u201cSeeing Aroko win it earlier in the season was a big motivation \u2013 it showed what\u2019s possible. I\u2019ve just stayed focused, worked hard, and I\u2019m happy to see it paying off,\u201d said the 20-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/kevin-wangaya-named-sportpesa-premier-league-player-of-the-month-of-april\/\">Kevin Wangaya named Sportpesa Premier League Player of the month of April<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi United forward Kevin Wangaya has been named the Sportpesa Football Kenya Federation Premier League Player of the month of April. Wangaya has been in red hot form for his side scoring opening goals that have earned the team crucial three points this season. That instinct to land the opening blow earned his side valuable [&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-140313","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\/140313","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=140313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}