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The Kenya women\u2019s U17\u00a0 Soccer team,Junior Starlets went down 0-2 to England in their opening group C match of the ongoing FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Dominican Republic.<\/strong><\/p>\n England eager to stamp their authority in the game, controlled proceedings from early on and camped in Kenya\u2019s half.<\/p>\n Kenya would however have their first attempt at goal when Valerie Nekesa ran clear but shot straight at the goalkeeper. \u00a0England continued to threaten and nearly went ahead when Isabella Fisher\u2019s volley went over in the 18th minute.<\/p>\n Their pressure paid off when Kenya\u2019s Halima Imbachi \u00a0handled in the box with Bolivian \u00a0referee Alejandra Quisbert Iriondo pointing to the spot.<\/p>\n Lola Sangita Brown converted the spot kick to give her side the lead which they came close to doubling minutes later \u00a0but Goalkeeper \u00a0Velma Abwire raced off her line to thwart Omotara Junaid\u2019s effort.<\/p>\n Kenya created their own chances too with Marion Serenge and Valerie Nekesa each testing the England goalkeeper with audacious long range efforts as the first half ended in favour of the English.<\/p>\n Kenya came back in the second half a rejuvenated side and their forward play was promising as Marion and Valerie linked up and nearly found the equalizer when Marion square ball \u00a0in the box went begging.<\/p>\n Kenya sustained their attack and Valerie Nekesa hit the side net with Kenya requesting for a review for possible penalty after Valerie was seemingly pushed but the penalty appeal was dismissed by the referee.<\/p>\n England found the second late on through substitute Lauryn Thompson after she raced clear and her long range shot outside the 18 yard \u00a0beat Velma in goal.<\/p>\n Junior Starlets head coach Mildred Cheche is hopeful of the team bouncing back in their \u00a0next group game against Korea DPR on October 20th.<\/p>\n \u2018\u2019The girls have played really well,being the first match we have a lot of lessons to lerarn in terms of physical attributes and tactical preparedness for the remaining two games we are going to give our best\u2019\u2019,Cheche said after the game.<\/p>\n The post Junior Starlets stumble against England in FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup opener<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Junior Starlets stumble against England in FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup opener<\/a> appeared first on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 The Kenya women\u2019s U17\u00a0 Soccer team,Junior Starlets went down 0-2 to England in their opening group C match of the ongoing FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Dominican Republic. England eager to stamp their authority in the game, controlled proceedings from early on and camped in Kenya\u2019s half. Kenya would however have their first […]<\/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-99613","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\/99613","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=99613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}