By Kei Emmanuel Duku.<\/p>\n
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Jamus FC, South Sudan’s representatives in the 2024\/25 Confederation of African Football (CAF) competitions, has bolstered its squad with the signing of goalkeeper Maja Mawith Maling.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Maling joins Jamus FC after the Munuki-based club secured the signature of Sudanese goalkeeper Sherif Aldin, earlier.<\/p>\n Both players bring a wealth of experience to the team as they prepare to represent South Sudan in the CAF Confederation Cup, which kicks off in one month.<\/p>\n Maling was previously playing for Australian National Premier League, Victoria club Port Melbourne SC and the South Sudan national team.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old was born in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya during the Sudanese civil war.<\/p>\n Maling began his career at Dandenong Thunder FC in the Australian league in 2015, making one appearance.<\/p>\n He made his senior debut for South Sudan in a 1-1 draw against Equatorial Guinea in August 2019 and has since gone on to play 12 matches for the national team.<\/p>\n Maling was in goal for South Sudan’s 3-0 defeat to Sudan in the recent FIFA 2026 World Cup qualifiers played in Juba earlier this month. Prior to joining Jamus FC, Maling also played for Melbourne Victory U-21 (2017-2019), Melbourne City (2018\/19), and Dandenong Thunder FC (2023\/24).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Kei Emmanuel Duku. Jamus FC, South Sudan’s representatives in the 2024\/25 Confederation of African Football (CAF) competitions, has bolstered its squad with the signing of goalkeeper Maja Mawith Maling. Maling joins Jamus FC after the Munuki-based club secured the signature of Sudanese goalkeeper Sherif Aldin, earlier. Both players[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Goalkeeper.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25987,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985\/revisions\/25987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}