{"id":35835,"date":"2021-08-29T14:29:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T14:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=35835"},"modified":"2021-08-29T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T14:27:31","slug":"yanga-day-brightens-dar-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/yanga-day-brightens-dar-arena","title":{"rendered":"Yanga Day brightens Dar arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\">Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>YOUNG Africans are ready to paint green and yellow the 60,000-capacity Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam as they stage the climax of their \u2018Wiki ya Mwananchi festival today.<\/p>\n<p>Branded \u2018National Sunday\u2019, the annual occasion which the club celebrates for the third season is likely to paralyse business in the city with all roads leading to the giant venue.<\/p>\n<p>A lot has been said prior to this big day hence; an opportunity for members and fans of the country\u2019s oldest club to experience a memorable occasion which will linger in their hearts forever.<\/p>\n<p>Already, the newly unveiled Yanga spokesperson Haji Manara who is going to be the Master of Ceremony (MC) has promised to host a unique show he has never done before in his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be clear here that what I will do on Sunday (tomorrow) is something unique which I have never done before. I will come with a different style of introducing new players you have never seen,\u201d he said recently.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there are many surprise packages which have been installed to colour the big day and give fans unforgettable adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s music mega star Koffi Olomide who landed yesterday fully equipped will set the stadium ablaze with his strong dance hits which are loved by many Tanzanians.<\/p>\n<p>He is going to be backed by several domestic singers who are passionate members and fans of the Jangwani Street club.<\/p>\n<p>The big names include Nandy (African Princess) who has produced a special song for the occasion. However, leaving aside all entertainment activities, the event\u2019s beauty will be spiced up by an international friendly match between Yanga and their Zambian guests, Zanaco.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the boiling point of the big day and a major squad testing event ahead of their CAF Champions League\u2019s first leg preliminary round match against Rivers FC of Nigeria in mid- September.<\/p>\n<p>Despite pitching a fruitful camp in Morocco, they did not play any signal testing encounter to weigh their time even though they recently played one friendly tie against DTB FC at their Avic Town camp in Kigamboni where they won 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>But, facing Zanaco will be a good platform to assess the team bearing in mind that most players are new hence; practically, the team chemistry is yet to click.<\/p>\n<p>The official launch of the weeklong \u2018Wiki ya Mwananchi\u2019 was held on August 22nd in Zanzibar where a number of activities took place and after that, it was spread to all parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the club through its instagram page announced that loyal tickets valued 200,000\/- each were sold out completely like hot cakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. YOUNG Africans are ready to paint green and yellow the 60,000-capacity Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam as they stage the climax of their \u2018Wiki ya Mwananchi festival today. Branded \u2018National Sunday\u2019, the annual occasion which the club celebrates for the third season is likely to paralyse business in the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":35834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[6990,6991,711],"class_list":["post-35835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-africa-press-tanzania","tag-tanzania"],"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>Yanga Day brightens Dar arena - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"YOUNG Africans are ready to paint green and yellow the 60,000-capacity Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam as they s ...\" \/>\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\/tanzania\/all-news\/yanga-day-brightens-dar-arena\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yanga Day brightens Dar arena\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"YOUNG Africans are ready to paint green and yellow the 60,000-capacity Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam as they s ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/yanga-day-brightens-dar-arena\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-29T14:29:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/08\/img-612b991ce9c3e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"749\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"561\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/yanga-day-brightens-dar-arena#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/yanga-day-brightens-dar-arena\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Yanga Day brightens Dar arena\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-29T14:29:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/yanga-day-brightens-dar-arena\"},\"wordCount\":455,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/yanga-day-brightens-dar-arena#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/08\/img-612b991ce9c3e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Tanzania\",\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/yanga-day-brightens-dar-arena#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/yanga-day-brightens-dar-arena\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/yanga-day-brightens-dar-arena\",\"name\":\"Yanga Day brightens Dar arena - 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