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Uganda emerged winners of the first edition of the Africa Women\u2019s Homeless World Cup after registering an emphatic 6-1 win against hosts Tanzania in Arusha.<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite falling behind through an own goal,Uganda who carried the favourites tag,rallied from behind tormenting their opponents to grab the resounding win.<\/p>\n Kenya finished the tournament in third place after \u00a0seeing off Zambia in a third place play off while Malawi was ranked fifth after a 8-7 thrilling victory against their Southern counterparts South Africa.<\/p>\n The Kenyan homeless Cup team at the tourney in Arusha.<\/p>\n Zimbabwe beat Namibia 5-1 to finish 7th.<\/p>\n Eight nations competed in the inaugural edition of the championship.The countries that graced the event were:Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n The tournament sought to celebrate unity,resilience, and demonstrate the \u00a0power of sport to drive change and empower women in communities.<\/p>\n \u2018\u2019Homeless world Cup project seeks to leverage the power and popularity of football as a conduit to engage vulnerable women by providing spaces that are safe for women to play football and support them to productive alternatives of exploitation\u2019\u2019 read a communique from the kenya team.<\/p>\n The regional tournament was used as preparation for the 19th edition of the forthcoming \u00a0Homeless World Cup which scheduled September in Seoul,Korea.<\/p>\n The post Kenya finishes third, Uganda crowned winners of inaugural Africa Women\u2019s Homeless Cup<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Uganda emerged winners of the first edition of the Africa Women\u2019s Homeless World Cup after registering an emphatic 6-1 win against hosts Tanzania in Arusha. Despite falling behind through an own goal,Uganda who carried the favourites tag,rallied from behind tormenting their opponents to grab the resounding win. Kenya finished the tournament in third place […]<\/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-60520","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\/60520","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=60520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}