{"id":199,"date":"2025-09-14T09:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:49:45","slug":"kampala-queens-face-rayon-sport-in-caf-womens-champions-league-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/14\/kampala-queens-face-rayon-sport-in-caf-womens-champions-league-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kampala Queens Face Rayon Sport in CAF Women\u2019s Champions League Semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The stage is set, the drums are rolling, and the Queens of Soccer are ready to roar. Kampala Queens will lock horns with Rwanda\u2019s Rayon Sport Women Football Club in a high-octane CAF Women\u2019s Champions League CECAFA Qualifier semifinal at Kasarani Stadium this Sunday, September 14, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Head coach Firew Asefa Hailegebreal has struck the confident note, reminding his side that effort\u2014not luck\u2014has been their ticket to this crucial moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been effort that has seen us reach this far. The ladies have competed well and I\u2019m confident they can do even better,\u201d Asefa affirmed. \u201cWe have studied our opponents, and they\u2019ve studied us too. But I trust my team will handle the challenge carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Queens\u2019 campaign has been a tale of resilience and rebirth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A narrow 1-0 opening-day defeat nearly dimmed their lights, but the Ugandan giants came storming back, crushing Eritrea\u2019s Denden 7-0 in a performance that electrified the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That emphatic victory propelled them into the semis as one of the best second-placed teams, setting up this tantalizing clash with Rayon Sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Kenya Police Bullets battling Tanzania\u2019s JKT Queens in the other semifinal, the region braces for a thrilling weekend where dreams of continental glory will either ignite or shatter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s been effort that has seen us reach this far. The ladies have competed well and I\u2019m confident they can do even better,\u201d Asefa affirmed. \u201cWe have studied our opponents, and they\u2019ve studied us too. But I trust my team will handle the challenge carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"right-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"normal-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"disabled","ast-banner-title-visibility":"disabled","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"disabled","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gugudde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}