By Kei Emmanuel Duku.<\/p>\n
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South Sudan National Team, the Bright Stars, has commenced training in preparation for the upcoming 2025 AFCON qualifiers.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The non-residential training sessions are taking place at Juba Stadium under the guidance of Coach Nicholas Dupius.<\/p>\n A provisional squad of thirty players has been called up, including fifteen foreign-based and fifteen domestic players.<\/p>\n While the domestic players have already begun training, the foreign players are expected to join the squad once their club commitments are completed.<\/p>\n The Bright Stars are grouped alongside Uganda, Congo Brazzaville, and South Africa in Group K.<\/p>\n Their qualifying journey will begin with an away match against Congo Brazzaville on September 9th, 2024. They will then host Bafana Bafana in Juba Stadium a week later.<\/p>\n A total of 48 nations are divided into 12 groups of four. The top two finishers in each group, excluding Morocco (the tournament hosts), will qualify for the AFCON 2025.<\/p>\n If Morocco finishes first or second in their group, they will automatically qualify along with the second-placed team.<\/p>\n If Morocco finishes third or fourth, they will still qualify, but the first-placed team in their group will also qualify.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Kei Emmanuel Duku. South Sudan National Team, the Bright Stars, has commenced training in preparation for the upcoming 2025 AFCON qualifiers. The non-residential training sessions are taking place at Juba Stadium under the guidance of Coach Nicholas Dupius. A provisional squad of thirty players has been called up,[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Bright-Stars-Technical-department-on-the-first-day-of-training-with-the-National-Team.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873","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=27873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27875,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions\/27875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}