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Defending Champions Ulinzi Starlets and Kibera Soccer Ladies won their respective Football Kenya Federation ,FKF Cup, semi final\u00a0 matches played Saturday at Dandora Stadium,Nairobi.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ulinzi Starlets clinched the place in the final after laboring to a 4-2 win against Kenya Police Bullets FC through penalty shoot out after \u00a01-1 draw in \u00a0regular time.<\/p>\n Kenya Police Bullets went ahead in the 64th minute through Lydia Akoth\u2019s penalty. Ulinzi however drew level shortly after through \u00a0Lucy Akoth.<\/p>\n Both sides failed to find the winner and penalty kicks were taken to decide the victor. Ulinzi Starlets Goalkeeper Phiona Ariko saved Mercy Njeri\u2019s penalty to send her side through.<\/p>\n \u2018\u2019Tactically we ensured that we did not give them the space to dominate which was crucial to our win today.The journey is not yet over Kibera soccer ladies is equally a good side and we will do all our best in the final\u2019\u2019 remarked Ulinzi Starlets head coach Joseph Mwanzia.<\/p>\n Kenya Police Fc head coach Beldine Odemba blamed lack of mental steeliness from her side for the loss.<\/p>\n \u2018\u2019We got back stronger in the second half but went down mentally and failed to comeback in time hence the loss.They came prepared for the penalties looking at the way they played today\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n In another semi final played at the same venue\u00a0 Kibera Soccer Ladies came from behind to beat\u00a0 Zetech Sparks 2-1.<\/p>\n Zetech took the lead through \u00a0Yvonne Kavere\u2019s penalty, but Kibera turned the tide in the second half as\u00a0 Lillian Mmboga and Stella Odhiambo scored a goal a piece to hand their side the win.<\/p>\n \u2018\u2019I motivated the players and made changes in the second half which brought us the goals.we dominated the second half and sepite losing a penalty we were able to keep our heads up and went past our opponents who were equally good\u2019\u2019 said Kibera Soccer Ladies Head coach David Bujego.<\/p>\n The final is scheduled June 16th .<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Ulinzi Starlets and Kibera Soccer Ladies to meet in FKF Women\u2019s Cup final<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Defending Champions Ulinzi Starlets and Kibera Soccer Ladies won their respective Football Kenya Federation ,FKF Cup, semi final\u00a0 matches played Saturday at Dandora Stadium,Nairobi. Ulinzi Starlets clinched the place in the final after laboring to a 4-2 win against Kenya Police Bullets FC through penalty shoot out after \u00a01-1 draw in \u00a0regular time. Kenya […]<\/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-35586","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\/35586","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=35586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}