{"id":1157917,"date":"2026-02-06T11:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/national\/uganda-to-compete-in-isf-football-world-cup-in-china\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:49:24","slug":"uganda-to-compete-in-isf-football-world-cup-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/uganda-to-compete-in-isf-football-world-cup-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda to compete in ISF Football World Cup in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA, Feb 6 (Xinhua\/APP): Uganda will compete in the 2026 International School Sport Federation (ISF) Football World Cup to be held in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou.<\/p>\n<p>Justus Mugisha, president of the Uganda Secondary Schools Sports Association, told Xinhua on Thursday that the country is confident of a strong showing in the global schools tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have very strong teams in football and we expect to put up a good show. This year we expect to field even better teams that should be going all out for gold,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 ISF Football World Cup will be held from October 17 to 26.<\/p>\n<p>Mugisha also revealed that Uganda will participate in another major international schools competition, the ISF Under-15 World School Volleyball Championship, in China&#8217;s Shangluo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking forward to sending the teams to China because they will be able to compete against other top teams from around the world,&#8221; said Mugisha.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda to compete in ISF Football World Cup in China<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1157919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7462,7463],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1157917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","tag-football-world-cup","tag-isf","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1157919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157917"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1157917"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1157917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}