By Kei Emmanuel, Duku<\/p>\n
South Sudan\u2019s U-17 Junior National Team, the Bright Stars, suffered a 4-0 defeat to Al-Merriekh FC Bentiu in a friendly match on Thursday evening at Juba National Stadium. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The match was part of the Bright Stars\u2019 preparations for the U-17 CECAFA Championship, scheduled for December 14-28, 2024, in Kampala, Uganda.<\/p>\n Chikidi Koang Jr. scored two goals for Al-Merriekh FC Bentiu, while Jack James and Philip contributed one goal each.<\/p>\n Following the loss to Al-Merriekh FC, the U-17 team bounced back with a 6-0 victory over Super Hero Academy on Friday morning. They concluded their friendly matches with a match against Citizens FC on Friday evening.<\/p>\n The team is expected to depart for Uganda over the weekend. As per the organizing committee\u2019s requirements, all participating countries must report a week ahead of the competition to undergo mandatory magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests.<\/p>\n The U-17 Championship is an annual competition for players born in 2007. To be eligible, players must be under 17 years of age.<\/p>\n In the previous edition held in Algeria, South Sudan\u2019s U-17 team was disqualified after several players were found to be overage. To avoid a similar incident, the South Sudan Football Association\u2019s medical department, in collaboration with a CAF doctor, conducted MRI tests and verification processes on the 20 players in Juba. All players were deemed eligible to participate in the upcoming competition.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Kei Emmanuel, Duku South Sudan\u2019s U-17 Junior National Team, the Bright Stars, suffered a 4-0 defeat to Al-Merriekh FC Bentiu in a friendly match on Thursday evening at Juba National Stadium. The match was part of the Bright Stars\u2019 preparations for the U-17 CECAFA Championship, scheduled for December 14-28,[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31493","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\/12\/Photo-by-SSFA.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31493","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=31493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31495,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31493\/revisions\/31495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}