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Trailblazers in the making: How Kenya's Junior Starlets excelled at World Cup

Junior Starlets celebrate a goal at the 2024 U17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic.

In a year when hopes were sky-high for Kenyan football, it was the unassuming Junior Starlets who would end up flying the national flag to unprecedented heights on the global stage.

Competing at the 2024 Fifa U17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic, this spirited group of young women from Kenya became the first team in the country's history-male or female-to notch a win at a Fifa World Cup.

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