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The National soccer team Harambee Stars registered their first victory\u00a0 in the 2025 Africa cup of nations qualifiers when they beat Namibia 2-1 in a group J match played \u00a0at Orlando Stadium in Johanesburg,South Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n After a barren first half Kenya came back rejuvenated\u00a0\u00a0 and went ahead through a sumptuous free kick scored by John Avire in the 58th minute.<\/p>\n The goal seemed to have awoken Namibia who pressed Kenya in search of an equalizer but they were caught off guard, as Kenya scored a second through a swift counter attack with Duke Abuya finishing off an Eric\u2019Marcello\u2019 Ouma teasing cross in the\u00a0 77th minute.<\/p>\n Namibia scored a consolation deep in stoppage time through Dione Hotto\u2019s free kick but it was too little too late as Kenya went on to grab the three vital points.<\/p>\n Kenya now tops group J standings with four points following that win while Cameroon who battled to a barren draw with Zimbabwe are ranked second with the same points but with an inferior goal difference.<\/p>\n Zimbabwe is second while Namibia tails the group\u00a0 with no point. The qualifiers are set to resume in October where Kenya will face Cameroon on 7th October away.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post AFCON 2025 Qualifiers: Kenya beats Namibia to go top of group J<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 The National soccer team Harambee Stars registered their first victory\u00a0 in the 2025 Africa cup of nations qualifiers when they beat Namibia 2-1 in a group J match played \u00a0at Orlando Stadium in Johanesburg,South Africa. After a barren first half Kenya came back rejuvenated\u00a0\u00a0 and went ahead through a sumptuous free kick scored by […]<\/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-90138","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\/90138","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=90138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}