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Rwanda Basketball League To Be Resumed In October

By
Evode Munyeshuri
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It was at the FERWABA general assembly meeting today Saturday 12th, September 2020 that a discussion about how the league in both men’s and women’s categories will be resumed.

The competition was suspended in March along with all other sports activities in the country as measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a meeting held in May this year, the federation set provisionally September 4th as the day the league would resume unfortunately this did not happen.

Today, discussion on how the 2019/20 league can be concluded plus all necessary implementations, before consultation and approval from the Ministry of Sports and the Ministry of Health, were held. These include:

  • BK National League will resume with games played in tournament format taking the best eight teams for men and the best four for women. Since all the teams did not play the same number of games, the new ranking will be made according to the average points gained per game played.
  • A three weeks practise before the tournament will be organised with maximum prevention measures put into place against COVID-19. All teams, officials and staff will be isolated during the competition period. All expenses will be covered by the league sponsor, Bank of Kigali.
  • Competition Structure; in the men’s category, 8 teams will be divided into two groups with the top 2 in each group advancing to the semi-final. For the women, 4 teams will contend in one group and later 1st Vs 4th and 2nd Vs 3rd will be played as the semi-final. Both semi-final and final will be played as one leg.
  • Schedule; team practice will be from 25th September to 15th October 2020 and the tournament from 16th-24th October 2020.

Rwanda will host both Afrobasket Qualifiers Group 4 (Nigeria, Mali, Rwanda and Algeria) between 19th and 21st November 2020 and Basketball Africa League (BAL) between 5th and 20th at the state of the Art Kigali Arena, where the National team and Patriots respectively will participate therefore the league will serve as preparation for these two competitions.

Moses Basena’s Sunrise signed Mugabo from Kenya Premier League

By
Evode Munyeshuri
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Sunrise has confirmed the signing of a Rwandan defender from KCB

The Centre-back, who completed 2-years contract at KCB, the club did not want to extend his contract as a result he opted to move to Nyagatare district based club in eastern Province of Rwanda.

Sunrise FC struggled defensively last season. In 23 games, they scored 36 goals and conceded 33 goals even if their former striker Babuwa Samson led the scorer’s charts.

It is in this context that the team is concerned with building a sustainable defense. Ndayishimiye Celestin and Mpozembizi Mohamed, both defenders, signed from Police FC.

Hereafter, via their twitter account, Sunrise announced that they have signed Gabriel Mugabo.

“The team is pleased to announce the signing of Rwandan International defender, Mugabo Gabriel. He is a Sunrise FC player for the next 2 years”

The team has also given letters to players urging them to return to the club’s headquarters to hold a meeting to prepare for next season. The Rwanda Premier League season 2020-2021 is tentatively scheduled to kick-off on October 30, 2020

Abouba Bashunga confirms Buildcon FC exit

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Ground Sports
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Rwandan goalkeeper Abouba Bashunga has parted ways with Zambia’s Buildcon FC and returned home to join the southern province based team, Mukura Victory Sport.

Bashunga, who signed one year contract with a renewable option was a second choice goalkeeper behind Tresor Njana in Builcon FC that survived the relegation in 2019/2020 season

The goalie is remembered in Rayon Sports team that reached the quarter-finals of the 2018 CAF Confederation Cup

Meanwhile, Abouba is not the only Rwandan to part ways with Buildcon FC in this transfer window, defender Faustin Usengimana also joined Rwanda’s Police FC.

Patrick Sibomana has joined Police FC (Rwanda) on a one year contract.

By
Evode Munyeshuri
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Following the release from Tanzania’s Yanga Africans at the end of last season, Rwandan striker Patrick Sibomana, known as Pappy, has signed for Rwanda’s Police FC.

This player is not blessed to play outside the country. He just returned home after one year in Tanzania’s Yanga Africans where he joined from Mukura VS. He also played one season for Mukura VS after leaving Belarus’s Shakhtyor Soligorsk where he also played one season.

Sibomana signed one year

Pappy has signed for Police FC despite the links to Zambian teams Napsa Stars and Zesco United

He became the seventh player to have signed for Police FC in this transfer window after Rutanga Eric and Iradukunda Eric from Rayon Sports, Martin Fabrice Twizerimana from SC Kiyovu, Faustin Usengimana from Zambia’s Buildcon FC, Evode Ntwali from Mukura VS and goalkeeper Janvier Kwizera from Bugesera FC.

 

Simba got off to a good start, with Young dropping one on the first day of the Vodacom League.

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Ground Sports
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The top division football championship in Tanzania has started. Day 1 matches were played on Sunday, September 6, 2020. kicking off with Namungo hosting Coastal Union at Majaliwa Stadium, the match ended with a lone goal score win for Namungo scored by Burundian striker Blaise Bigirimana.

New promoted side, Ihefu hosted Simba in Mbeya City, and the champions welcomed them in premier league with a 2-1 win thanks to Bocco and Yassin while the home team’s goal was scored by Omary Mponda signed this year from relegated side Ndanda.

Following Simba’s victory, the rivals Young africans had to respond but failed to collect all three points against Tanzania Prisons. Match ended with 1 goal draw, Micheal Sarpong scored for young to cancel the lead of Prisons through Sabiyanka.

On Monday, Azam FC of Nicholas Wadada took all points of the game against Polisi thanks to a Zambian, Aubrey Chirwa’s strike in first half. Then the big win of Day 1 appeared at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium where KMC beaten Mbeya City FC four goals to zero.

Vodacom Premier league day 1 results

Day 2 games will start this friday, September 7th

BURUNDI: The football league started, 2 forfeits on Day 1

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Ground Sports
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Musongati to face Green Eagles in CAF Confederation Cup first Preliminary round.
Musongati FC. Photo from FFB

The first round of the Burundi Football Championship kicked off on Saturday, September 5th. 6 games were played out of 8 scheduled games.

The League started full of surprises, as the defending champions Le Messager Ngozi started their journey with a heavy defeat against Flambeau du Centre at the Ingoma Stadium with a score of three goals to none

The historical team Vital’O were not good enough on their first game of the season at the Intwari Stadium, they hosted Police force team Rukunzo and which ended in a defeat. Landry Ndikumana and Hamissi Bizimana were on target for the latter

Bumamuru and Kayanza United didn’t appear on the stadium due to players who have not yet received licenses to play the league. According to the Burundi Football Federation law of competition, Les Elephants and Bujumbura City that were supposed to play against them got an automatic win sharing two goals each.

In other matches, Musongati with the help of Olivier Dusabe defeated Inter Star at the Ingoma Stadium in Gitega Province.

All Day 1 Results

2020 Congress Organizers Norminations

By
Kenneth Lwanga
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CAVB Board meets via Zoom to nominate the 2020 Congress organisers

Cairo, Egypt, September 5, 2020- The African Volleyball Confederation “CAVB” Board of Administration presided by Dr Amr Elwani meets on Sunday September 6, 2020 at 13:00 Cairo time (11:00 GMT) via zoom to nominate the CAVB Congress organisers to be held on October 24 and 25, 2020.

After the end of the deadline, 3 countries send their applications to host the Congress, namely Uganda, Niger and Tanzania, while Rwanda and Togo sent their applications after the closure of the system on August 30, 2020 at 12:00 Cairo time, 10:00 GMT.

The CAVB will declare on September 7, 2020 the final host of the Congress after the final decision taken by CAVB Board of Administration.

The Congress organisation was dedicated before to South Africa, but due to the widespread of Coronavirus in the country, CAVB decided to re-open the applications to host the event.

“We need to follow CAVB regulation and show the transparency in choosing the organiser of the Congress,” Said CAVB President Dr Amr Elwani

“The CAVB Board will declare the final decision after the meeting following the final inspection of all the documents sent to CAVB from the 5 NFs.

COVID-19 Funds Recieved – All Happy Faces For UPL Clubs

By
Kenneth Lwanga
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StarTimes Uganda Premier League clubs received a total of 527m UGX to share 33m UGX each as fund allocated to help remedy the issues clubs face during the COVID-19 Pandemic says the league website SUPL

The secretariat received  52m UGX and Bainamani said, “It’s a big relief to the secretariat and we shall use it for a few salaries and other outstanding overhead costs.”

The League was concluded after playing 25 fixtures due to the novel pandemic. The upcoming season is scheduled for October 2020.

Mamelodi Sundowns Crowned 2019/20 Champions.

By
Kenneth Lwanga
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With a tenth title and third in a row, champions Mamelodi Sundowns cliched the ABSA Premiership title after a 3-0 win over Black Leopards with all three goals coming from forward Lebo Maboe in the 45+5′, 53′ and 90+2′.

Before matchday 30, Kaizer Chiefs were favourites to win the title sharing points with the champions but with a bigger goal difference. Both teams were facing relegation zone sides Black Leopards and Baroka. To win the title, Kaizer Chiefs needed to win and also maintain a greater goal difference against the champions but instead, they dropped shared a point with Baroka who were fighting demotion.

After 30 games played Sundown finished 2 points clear of Kaizer Chiefs.

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Uganda Cranes respected goalkeeper, Dennis Onyango did not attend the medal awarding ceremony stating that he had to respect COVID-19 rules.

“I didn’t pick up the medal from the stadium because there is a limited number of people allowed in the stadium because of the health situation due to the coronavirus.”

“There is a maximum of 100 people allowed in the stadium including the match officials, TV crew members. So, they didn’t take everyone because of the regulations of COVID-19.”

“Of course, there are other players who stayed with me in the hotel. They only took 20 players in the squad plus the officials and medical team.”

“That’s what will happen also in the Nedbank Cup final because there are a limited number of people allowed in the stadium just to follow guidelines from the government.”

The skipper has won this title on 7 occasions, three with SuperSport United and four with Sundowns.

South African Premier League to End on Saturday.

By
Kenneth Lwanga
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With 56 points in 29 ties and one more match to finish the league, Kaizer Chiefs are favorites to win the title.

Sundowns share points with chiefs but Title contenders have a greater goal difference. Both teams face relegation battle sides Baroka and Black Leopards on Saturday.

Chiefs forward Samir Nurkovic state, “We have the confidence and that is what we must take to this match. It will not be easy. It has not been since we returned. Baroka are fighting for their lives and this will make them a difficult side.”

“But Chiefs is a big club and it is not right that we have not won anything in five years. We need to put on a big performance. Our team has been on top of the log since the season started. We must finish what we started,” the Chiefs forward said.

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