{"id":17319,"date":"2020-11-09T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=17319"},"modified":"2020-11-09T20:28:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:28:14","slug":"chacha-delighted-to-be-back-at-bandari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/chacha-delighted-to-be-back-at-bandari","title":{"rendered":"Chacha delighted to be back at Bandari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author: Ernest Ndunda<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Bandari defender Swaleh Chacha, who has rejoined the team after loan spells at Sony Sugar and Mathare United says he is happy to be back home.<\/p>\n<p>Chacha passed through Bandari Youth side before he was promoted to the senior team in 2018, but loaned out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted to be back at the dockyard. Bandari is my home and I am happy that I am back home. It\u2019s been a long and successful journey from the youth team to the senior team. I am happy also that the team trusts me to deliver and I promise to give my all for the team,\u201d said Chacha in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The other players to have returned to Bandari are Dennis Magige and Hassan Idd.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Ken Odhiambo believes the return of the trio is a major boost to the team as they prepare for the resumption of football activities that were suspended in March due to covid-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Team\u2019s Technical Director Twahir Muhiddin, who is also the assistant coach of Harambee Stars predicts a tough 2020\/21 Kenyan Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p>He said since the cancellation of premier league in March, players have been inactive and it might time before the players are physically fit for the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mombasa County pre-season football tournament started with MICD hitting Eleven Stars 5-3 while Burnley clobbered Cosmos 3-0 in another match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Ernest Ndunda AfricaPress-Kenya: Bandari defender Swaleh Chacha, who has rejoined the team after loan spells at Sony Sugar and Mathare United says he is happy to be back home. Chacha passed through Bandari Youth side before he was promoted to the senior team in 2018, but loaned out. \u201cI am delighted to be back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[3140,6423,6422,6421],"class_list":["post-17319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-bandari-football-club","tag-mathare-united","tag-sony-sugar","tag-swaleh-chacha"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chacha delighted to be back at Bandari - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bandari defender Swaleh Chacha, who has rejoined the team after loan spells at Sony Sugar and Mathare United says he is happy to be back home\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/chacha-delighted-to-be-back-at-bandari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chacha delighted to be back at Bandari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bandari defender Swaleh Chacha, who has rejoined the team after loan spells at Sony Sugar and Mathare United says he is happy to be back home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/chacha-delighted-to-be-back-at-bandari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-09T20:28:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/lqlihqbmrefav1be5fa8668eace21.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/chacha-delighted-to-be-back-at-bandari#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/chacha-delighted-to-be-back-at-bandari\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chacha delighted to be back at Bandari\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-09T20:28:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/chacha-delighted-to-be-back-at-bandari\"},\"wordCount\":237,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/chacha-delighted-to-be-back-at-bandari#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/lqlihqbmrefav1be5fa8668eace21.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bandari football club\",\"Mathare United\",\"Sony Sugar\",\"Swaleh Chacha\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/chacha-delighted-to-be-back-at-bandari#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/chacha-delighted-to-be-back-at-bandari\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/chacha-delighted-to-be-back-at-bandari\",\"name\":\"Chacha delighted to be back at Bandari - 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