By Kei Emmanuel Duku<\/p>\n
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South Sudan national team defender Peter Maker has officially joined Kenyan Premier League powerhouse AFC Leopard on a two-year contract.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The move comes after the towering defender’s previous contract with Serbian club Radnicki Mitrovica expired.<\/p>\n Maker, a versatile player capable of playing both defensive midfield and center-back, has been training with AFC Leopard during his free-agent period.<\/p>\n The 30-year-old has gained significant experience throughout his career, playing for clubs in South Sudan, Zambia, and Serbia.<\/p>\n Maker’s journey began with Al-Ghazal Wau in South Sudan before he moved to Amrat United. He then had stints with ZESCO United in Zambia and Radnicki Mitrovica in Serbia.<\/p>\n While at Amrat United, Maker earned his national team debut under former coach Cyprian Besong Ashu and was subsequently named captain of the Bright Stars.<\/p>\n He has represented South Sudan in numerous matches, including the recent 3-0 defeat to Sudan in the FIFA 2026 World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n It remains to be seen if Maker will be included in Nicholas Dupuis’s plans for South Sudan’s upcoming AFCON qualifying matches against Congo Brazzaville and South Africa.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Kei Emmanuel Duku South Sudan national team defender Peter Maker has officially joined Kenyan Premier League powerhouse AFC Leopard on a two-year contract. The move comes after the towering defender’s previous contract with Serbian club Radnicki Mitrovica expired. Maker, a versatile player capable of playing both defensive midfield[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,129,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news","category-regional","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Maker-being-aviled-by-his-club-AFC-Leopard-in-Nairobi-hotel-in-Kenya-on-Tuesday.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27954","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=27954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27956,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27954\/revisions\/27956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}