{"id":38788,"date":"2019-01-23T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-champions-challenge-kicks-off-at-the\/"},"modified":"2019-01-23T08:44:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T08:44:48","slug":"rwanda-s-champions-challenge-kicks-off-at-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-champions-challenge-kicks-off-at-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\u2019s Champions Challenge kicks off at the Arsenal Training Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The challenge brought together three Arsenal fans, three Arsenal first-team players, Mesut Ozil, Alexandre Lacazette and Alex Iwobi, and UK music artist Lethal Bizzle.<\/p>\n<p>The fans and the first-team players worked together in a variety of challenges, testing both their football skills and knowledge of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Via its Twitter Wall, Visit Rwanda had announced the launch of the Challenge: \u201cOne @Arsenal fan will win an 8 Day, All-Inclusive Trip to #VisitRwanda today in the #RwandaChampionsChallenge taking place at the Arsenal Training Centre. Follow @VisitRwanda_now on Instagram and watch the competition from 5 pm (3 PM GMT) on our Insta Story. A surprise awaits ;)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cRwanda Champions Challenge\u201d is a competition that requires both physical and mental effort. The participants, Arsenal fans got the chance to be team up with the three first-team players and took part in three challenges. The winner who will be announced on 30th January will be taking home a trip for two to Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>Other prizes include Return flights, accommodation at a stunning hotel or lodge, guiding services throughout the trip and visits to Rwanda\u2019s stunning National Parks, where the winner will be able to trek with gorillas and see chimpanzees in their natural habitat.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28041 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dxillz1xgaa-yfi.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda\u2019s Champions Challenge brought together three Arsenal fans, three Arsenal first-team players, Mesut Ozil, Alexandre Lacazette and Alex Iwobi, who worked in a variety of challenges, testing both their football skills and knowledge of Rwanda.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28042 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dxhezenx0aag3t8.jpg\" alt=\"The Challenge was successfully held at the Arsenal Training Centre\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit Rwanda yesterday successfully held the Rwanda Champions Challenge at the  Arsenal Training Centre, in London Colney. The challenge saw Arsenal Fans meet first-team players Arsenal Fans where the winner had an opportunity to an 8 Day, all-inclusive trip to visit Rwanda in a competition dubbed the \u201cRwanda Champions Challenge\u201d in partnership with the Arsenal Football Club. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[213],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-berenice-rutaganda"],"bylines":[{"id":213,"name":"B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Rutaganda","slug":"berenice-rutaganda","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":37}],"contributors":[{"id":213,"name":"B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Rutaganda","slug":"berenice-rutaganda","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":37}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38788","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38788"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38788"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}