{"id":37980,"date":"2018-08-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/church-grooms-football-talent-ferwafa-promises\/"},"modified":"2018-08-10T11:50:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T11:50:59","slug":"church-grooms-football-talent-ferwafa-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/church-grooms-football-talent-ferwafa-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Church grooms football talent, FERWAFA promises support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commitment was made by the Technical Director at FERWAFA, Hussein Habimana while closing football competition that brought together youngsters across Rwanda at IPRC Kigali stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed \u2018Ambassadors of Foot Ball\u2019, the three-day Christian programme competition was organized by the Association of Pentecostal Church in Rwanda (ADEPR) under the theme \u2018Play For Peace\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven teams from across the country participated in the competition with Muhoza Team of Musanze District shining in male category while Kagamba Team from Gicumbi District shined in female category.<\/p>\n<p>The legal representative of ADEPR, Ephrem Karuranga said that the programme fulfilled the church objective of guiding the youth by teaching them Christian values. <\/p>\n<p>He said that ADEPR plans to build a strong Football team. <\/p>\n<p>FERWAFA\u2019s Habimana lauded the initiative saying that it provides young talents with opportunity to bloom into great players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI commit my support to ADEPR in this programme. We shall give out trainings to the children&#8217;s coaches and systematic follow-up on promising talents,\u201d he promised.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media, the programme country coordinator, Jean Paul Seneza hailed the government of Rwanda and sponsors\u2019 support to make the competition successful. <\/p>\n<p>The Football Ambassadors Programme aims at inspiring youngsters and equipping them to build Christ-centred relationships through football.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26608 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/0l8a4887.jpg\" alt=\"A child from the winning team receiving his prize\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26609 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/0l8a4888-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26610 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/0l8a4920-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26612 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/0l8a4976-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rwandan youngsters shine in Ambassadors football competition\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26611 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/0l8a4940-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26615 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/0l8a5016-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandese Association Football Federation (FERWAFA) has promised continued coaching and guidance to young Christian youth who exhibited promising talents in football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37980","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37980"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37980"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}