{"id":53703,"date":"2025-04-03T22:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T22:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/zambia-withdraws-4-us-based-footballers-from-china-tournament-over-us-travel\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T22:25:07","slug":"zambia-withdraws-4-us-based-footballers-from-china-tournament-over-us-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/zambia-withdraws-4-us-based-footballers-from-china-tournament-over-us-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia withdraws 4 US-based footballers from China tournament over US travel limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The four are Barbra Banda, Rachael Kundananji, Prisca Chilufya and Grace Chanda, will not be able to compete at the Yongchuan International Tournament, an invitational women\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir failure to owes to additional travel measures introduced by the new administration in the United States\u201d, Zambia Football Association general secretary Reuben Kamanga said in a statement, without specifying the \u201ctravel measures\u201d referred to.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Trump administration\u2019s crackdown on illegal immigration, stepped-up checks of foreign student visa holders and a potential ban on travel from some countries, has made many foreigners who live in the U.S. question whether they should travel abroad in case they have difficulty re-entering the country.<\/p>\n<p>Banda, the team captain, Chanda and Chilufya play for Orlando Pride, and Kundananji was under contract with San Jose-based Bay FC in the National Women\u2019s Soccer League.<\/p>\n<p>In an executive order signed in January, Trump told his Cabinet members to submit a report within 60 days that identifies countries with vetting so poor that it would \u201cwarrant a partial or full suspension\u201d of travelers from those countries to the US.<\/p>\n<p>US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said last month that the review was continuing and no list had been finalized. It is unclear whether China will be on the list.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-84791 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pic-107.jpg\" alt=\"Barbra Banda, the team captain, plays for Orlando Pride.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4 players will not be able to compete at a women\u2019s tournament in Yongchuan owing to US travel measures, Zambia Football Association said. The players have been withdrawn from the squad set to travel to a tournament in China because of US travel restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000084790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000084790,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-510.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-510.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-510.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-510.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-510.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-510.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000084790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53703"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53703"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}