{"id":39658,"date":"2019-07-12T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-prepared-to-host-beach-volleyball-world\/"},"modified":"2019-07-13T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:45:17","slug":"rwanda-prepared-to-host-beach-volleyball-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-prepared-to-host-beach-volleyball-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda prepared to host Beach Volleyball World Championship -officials"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rwanda requested to host the tournament dubbed \u2018Rubavu Beach Volleyball Tour\u2019 according to officials from Rwanda Volleyball Federation (FRVB) that the country was qualified because it met requirements. <\/p>\n

Speaking to the media on preparation of the event, FRVB President L\u00e9andre Karekezi said that Rwanda was approved to host the tournament one year ago and is earmarking much effort to make the tournament successful. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been qualified to host the tournament one year ago. We have been also undergoing year-long preparations because it requires competent infrastructure and running different activities to meet standards to host the tournament,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Karekezi underscored that preparations are underway as they are now busy with preparations of grounds and construction of fans seats as required by FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe rest is to preparation of playgrounds and building fans\u2019 seats. It is a bit late but we are about starting but activities agreed with FIVB are on a good progress in general,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

The Secretary General of FRVB, Adalbert Mfashimana has revealed that the tournament attracting 28 teams in each men and women category.<\/p>\n

The Director of Sports at the Ministry of Sports and Culture (MINISPOC), Guy Rurangayire said that Rwanda will try by all means for better organization of the tournament. <\/p>\n

A total of US$10,000 has been allocated to award the first three teams in each category where the first will get US$5000.<\/p>\n

The tournament was sponsored by the Government of Rwanda will comprise 86 games from different teams across the globe. <\/p>\n

Only three local teams will participate. Participating teams will be announced 21 days before the official opening of the tournament. <\/p>\n

\"Rwanda<\/figure>\n
\"The<\/figure>\n
\"The<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rwanda is set to host four-day Beach Volleyball World Championship expected to be held at the beach of Lake Kivu in Rubavu district from 21st August 2019 attracting 56 teams including 28 both in men and women categories.<\/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-39658","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\/39658","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=39658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39658"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39658"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}