{"id":38099,"date":"2018-08-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rayon-sports-make-it-to-caf-confederation-cup\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T07:24:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T07:24:56","slug":"rayon-sports-make-it-to-caf-confederation-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rayon-sports-make-it-to-caf-confederation-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Rayon Sports make it to CAF Confederation Cup quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The historic moment was made on a very wet Thursday afternoon with the rain pouring heavily on the artificial turf of the Kigali Regional Stadium in Nyamirambo. But despite the depressing weather, diehard Rayon Sports FC fans were singing and cheering for their team.<\/p>\n<p>In the first ten minutes of the match, Eric Rutangwa tried to sweep the ball past Young Africans custodian for the opening goal, but was stopped by Young Africans&#8217; Haiji Shaibu.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb Bonfils Bimenyimana was the one who swept the ball past the custodian for the opening goal, exactly on the 19th minute. <\/p>\n<p>As the match closed on a 1-0 at half time, Young Africans came back battling for an equalizer, but to no avail as Rayon Sports&#8217; players stayed with the ball.  <\/p>\n<p>Lucky enough for the Blues, last minute efforts by the visitors to get an equaliser bore no fruit as Rayon Sports who played with a handful players, broke into jubilation after the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>The win took Rayon Sports\u2019 count to nine points, placing it just behind USM Alger, which won 2-1 in another tie against Kenyan Gor Mahia. The team will wait for their quarter-final opponents on Monday, September 3.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26942 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/capture-20180829-173131-a9f59.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26941 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0021-9f5ce.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26944 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0062-2-1aea3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26945 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0120-88703.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26946 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b9977-02776.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26947 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b9953-f4ced.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26948 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0125-4-53735.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>[Click here for more pictures->https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/igihepictures\/sets\/72157697555252512]<\/p>\n<p>{{Photos: Moses Niyonzima }} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda&#8217;s Rayon Sports yesterday made a smooth sailing into the CAF Confederation Cup quarter-finals after winning a flawless 1-0 against Young Africans of Tanzania\u2014 becoming the first Rwandan Team making it in that category.<\/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":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38099","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\/38099","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=38099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38099"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38099"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}