{"id":7960,"date":"2022-06-08T07:01:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T07:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2022-06-08T08:59:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:59:32","slug":"malkia-strikers-brazilian-head-coach-luizomar-de-moura-has-named-the-provisional-squad-for-the-world-championships-set-for-23-september-to-15-october-in-netherlands-and-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7960","title":{"rendered":"Malkia Strikers Brazilian head coach Luizomar de Moura has named the provisional squad for the World Championships set for 23 September to 15 October in Netherlands and Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malkia Strikers head coach&nbsp;<strong>Luizomar de Moura<\/strong>&nbsp;has named a provisional squad for the World Championships set for 23 September to 15 October in Netherlands and Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya was placed in Pool A alongside arch-rivals Cameroon, hosts the Netherlands, European champions Italy, Belgium, and Puerto Rico during a virtual draw ceremony held at FIVB headquarters in Switzerland in March.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Brazilian tactician has gone for a mix of youth and experience with some new faces that make the provisional team. Also returning is Kenya Pipeline&#8217;s middle blocker&nbsp;<strong>Trizah Atuka<\/strong>&nbsp;who missed the last two assignments with injury.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya Prisons outside hitter Meldinah Sande, Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) setter&nbsp;<strong>Veronica Kilabat<\/strong>&nbsp;and libero&nbsp;<strong>Veronica Makokha&nbsp;<\/strong>as well as KCB trio of&nbsp;<strong>Magdaline Mwende<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Belinda Barasa<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Faith Imodia<\/strong>&nbsp;have made the list.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kilabat and Imodia are set to fight for the setter position replacing&nbsp;<strong>Joy Lusenaka&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Esther Mutinda<\/strong>&nbsp;who did duty at the last national team outing but are now unavailable for duty.&nbsp;Also missing is KCB&#8217;s left attacker&nbsp;<strong>Leonida Kasaya.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nkirrrrrr-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nkirrrrrr-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nkirrrrrr-1-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 500px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malkia Strikers head coach&nbsp;Luizomar de Moura&nbsp;has named a provisional squad for the World Championships set for 23 September to 15 October in Netherlands and Poland. Kenya was placed in Pool A alongside arch-rivals Cameroon, hosts the Netherlands, European champions Italy, Belgium, and Puerto Rico during a virtual draw ceremony held at FIVB headquarters in Switzerland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nkirrrrrr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7963,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions\/7963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}