{"id":37982,"date":"2018-08-10T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T09:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-drummers-stun-arsenal-players-during\/"},"modified":"2018-08-10T15:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T15:34:01","slug":"rwandan-drummers-stun-arsenal-players-during","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-drummers-stun-arsenal-players-during\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan drummers stun Arsenal players during routine training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a video shared on the club\u2019s official twitter handle, Rwandan drummers and dancers clad in traditional attires are seen sharing light moments with the English Premier League Team top players. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt was just a normal day at training&#8230; &#8230;and then this happened Thanks for coming to see us, @visitrwanda_now,\u201d reads Arsenal twit.<\/p>\n<p>In the video drums players are seen circulating around the pitch, drumming and dancing, amazing and amusing the players who joined them in enjoying Rwandan traditional dancing rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>As drummers entered the pitch, players including Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Lucas Torreira, Alexander Lacazette, Aubameyang, Coach Unai Emery among others joined the dancers.<\/p>\n<p>The seemingly amazed performance created magnanimity among players and concluded by a big applause to dancers as well as shaking hands of one another.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Rwanda and Arsenal signed three-year tourism partnership that will see the \u201cVisit Rwanda\u201d logo featured on the left sleeve of all first team, under-23 and Arsenal Women\u2019s matches from the season starting August.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will among others highlight Rwanda\u2019s tourism offerings such as the National Parks, which are attracting a record number of tourists due to growing numbers of wildlife including black rhino, lions, zebra, chimpanzees and the mountain gorillas, as well as the investment opportunities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) revealed that one Arsenal player will attend the Gorilla naming ceremony this year. The 23-infant-gorillas naming ceremony will be held at the foothills of the National Volcano Park in Kinigi, Musanze District, on September 7.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26619 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arsenal_1-77d03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26618 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arsenal-6-a1f92.jpg\" alt=\"Drummers stunned Arsenal players during routine training drills\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26617 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arsenal_team-8ae6f.jpg\" alt=\"Amazed Arsenal players as they watch Rwandan drummers\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oqi_e-i8emM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this week, Rwandan drummers and dancers stunned Arsenal Players at London Colney pitch in Hertfordshire while in normal training drills, when they surprised them with a brief session of Rwandan traditional powerful patters of drumming and dancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","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\/37982","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37982"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37982"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}