After celebrating their victory as the football winners of the outgoing inter-secondary games completions, La Colombiere secondary school located in Gasabo district is representing Rwanda at the regional schools championships.
The prosperous squad is in Mbarara district of western Uganda to participate in the 10th Edition of the East African Secondary Schools Sports Championships scheduled on August 26 to September 4.
Speaking to igihe.com, Gasabo district Deputy Mayor in charge of Social Affairs Louise Uwimana said, “We are here to celebrate the victory of our juniors and we are happy to see that the school located in this district is going to represent the whole country in football.”
“As children who are going to represent our country therefore, we had to sit with them first and give them proper guidance. The recently appointed Senator also working as Gasabo district secondary schools sports treasurer, Teddy Gacinya noted.
“In the country where they are going, we will be very close and provide help in everything they need including;sensitive care, so we have to be with them and retain our value as Rwandans while in a foreign country,” He stressed.
The team’s captain, Innocent Gafishi said,“We are so empowered with skills because we have been training for three weeks.We have a very good team and even some of them are in the U17 national team.
“To me since we won at national level, we shall also win at the EAC level in the upcoming game competitions,”Gafishi says.
The participating countries are Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the newly born country of South Sudan” The Skipper concluded.
Games to be played are; soccer, volleyball, netball, hockey, football, basketball, handball, rugby, and athletics.
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