{"id":1037,"date":"2024-11-28T13:11:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2024-11-28T13:11:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:11:15","slug":"cecafa-junior-qualifiers-draw-south-sudan-in-group-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"CECAFA junior qualifiers draw. South Sudan in Group B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juba \/ Arop Jongchol<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The draw for the East and Central Africa Confederation \u201cCecafa\u201d qualifiers for the under-17 teams has placed South Sudan in Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight teams are participating in these qualifiers, divided into two groups, with four teams in each group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our junior national team faces the challenge of Sudan, Kenya and the defending champions, Somalia. Ethiopia, Tanzania, Burundi and Uganda, the hosts of the qualifiers, are in Group A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The qualifiers will take place between December 14-27. All matches will be played at Al Hamz Stadium in Nakivubo and St. Mary&#8217;s Stadium in Kitende.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somalia are the defending champions of this qualifying tournament, which was held in Ethiopia&#8217;s capital Addis Ababa in 2022. They beat South Sudan 3\/1 in the final match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba \/ Arop Jongchol The draw for the East and Central Africa Confederation \u201cCecafa\u201d qualifiers for the under-17 teams has placed South Sudan in Group B. Eight teams are participating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}