{"id":14893,"date":"2025-11-10T05:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/mccarthy-receives-two-new-tough-assignments-as-kenyas-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:18","slug":"mccarthy-receives-two-new-tough-assignments-as-kenyas-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mccarthy-receives-two-new-tough-assignments-as-kenyas-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy receives two new tough assignments as Kenya&#8217;s Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Harambee Stars were scheduled to face Madagascar and Comoros in the November international break. However, a change in schedule means they will now face Equatorial Guinea and Senegal in Turkey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">McCarthy has also made three changes to his squad, as Kevin Otiende, Bryton Onyona, and Shariff Musa have been called up. The two build up matches come just a month after Kenya played their last 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches against Burundi and Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Harambee Stars defeated the Swallows of Burundi 1-0 away before losing 3-0 against the African champions. However, Kenya failed to qualify for the World Cup after finishing Group F in fourth position with 12 points from 10 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kenya managed three wins, three draws and suffered four defeats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14894,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-14893","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kenya's Head Coach, Benni McCarthy has been given two new tough assignments for the upcoming international break","published_date":"2025-11-10 00:00:00","news_description":"Kenya's Head Coach, Benni McCarthy has been given two new tough assignments for the upcoming international break","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19358,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14893\/revisions\/19358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}