{"id":38527,"date":"2018-11-20T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/apr-fc-coach-petrovic-retires-cites-health\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:38:52","slug":"apr-fc-coach-petrovic-retires-cites-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/apr-fc-coach-petrovic-retires-cites-health\/","title":{"rendered":"APR FC Coach Petrovic retires, cites health problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to letter of resignation released on APR FC website on Sunday, the 71-year-old Serbian Petrovic will no longer act as the trainer of Rwanda\u2019s Army affiliated football club due to heart problems and impaired health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am contacting the Management of the Club to inform that due to my heart problems and impaired health, I can no longer conduct the trainer\u2019s job,\u201d reads a letter dated November 15th, 2018. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a detailed examination, to my great sadness, the doctor told me that if I want to continue with normal life, I should never be dealing with a trainer\u2019s call. This is the most difficult moment of my life because I am forbidden to do what I love most,\u201d sadly says Dr. Petrovic in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Ljubo Petrovic, winner of the European Cup-turned-UEFA Champions league as head coach of Red Star Belgrade as Serbia, his native country in 1991, won, with AP FC, the last Azam Rwanda premier League cup which saw Rwanda\u2019s national football cup 17-time winners qualify for the 2018\/19 TOTAL CAF Champions league, Africa\u2019s major interclub football competition.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so sorry to stop working for FC. APR, now when we are on our way to achieving all the wishes of the club especially of entering the Champions League,\u201d the letter keeps reading.<\/p>\n<p>{{Former Rayon Sports coach said to replace Petrovic?<br \/>\n}}<\/p>\n<p>Trusted news reaching IGIHE is that after resigning from his job as APR FC, Dr. Ljupko Petrovic may be replaced by Luc Eymael, a Belgian Coach who once served as APR FC\u2019s bitterest rivals, Rayon Sports\u2019 coach.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPetrovic has resigned at a time when CAF competitions are near.  Some coaches are being considered to replace him. Among them, the most known is Luc Eymael, former Rayon Sports\u2019 coach. He is a good coach who is also experienced in African football,\u201d said an official in APR FC who talked to IGIHE on conditions of anonymity. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27591 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ljupko_petrovic_announced_his_retirement_from_all_football_coaching_matters.jpg\" alt=\"Ljupko Petrovic announced his retirement from all football coaching matters\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27592 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jimmy_mulisa_will_be_serving_as_the_temporary_coach_of_apr_fc.jpg\" alt=\"Jimmy Mulisa will be serving as the temporary coach of APR FC\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After eight months as head coach of APR Football Club, Dr. Ljubomir &#8220;Ljubo&#8221; Petrovi\u0107 has announced retirement from all football-related activities citing heart problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[180],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-homenews","byline-samson-iradukunda"],"bylines":[{"id":180,"name":"Samson Iradukunda","slug":"samson-iradukunda","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":24}],"contributors":[{"id":180,"name":"Samson Iradukunda","slug":"samson-iradukunda","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":24}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38527","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38527"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38527"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}