{"id":40062,"date":"2019-09-23T11:28:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-inches-towards-chan-2020-after-defeating\/"},"modified":"2019-09-23T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:27:53","slug":"rwanda-inches-towards-chan-2020-after-defeating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-inches-towards-chan-2020-after-defeating\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda inches towards CHAN 2020 after defeating Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Striker Sugira Ernest scored a bicycle goal in the 62nd minute to give Rwanda a first-leg advantage ahead of the return leg to be played in Kigali next month.<\/p>\n<p>Sugira\u2019s goal comes a few days after he was on the score sheet as Rwanda edged DR Congo in a 3-2 international friendly match which was played away in Kinshasa on September 18, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Good goalkeeping and defending tactics helped Coach Mashami Vincent\u2019s side to seal the win despite efforts from Ethiopian forwards which were unproductive.<\/p>\n<p>The winner over the two legs will automatically secure a ticket to the 6th CHAN finals tournament. Rwanda is on the quest for a fourth appearance in the biennial tournament, having only missed the inaugural (2009) and 2014 editions.<\/p>\n<p>Previously Rwanda qualified for the 2018 CHAN tournament, held in Morocco, after beating Ethiopia 3-2, thanks to goals from Abeddy Biramahire, Eric Rutanga, and Muhadjiri Hakizimana, hosted the 2016 edition in Kigali after taking part in the 2011 edition which was held in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>The CHAN qualifiers will also act as a preparation advantage for Rwanda ahead of the Total AFCON Cameroon 2021 qualifications, which will kick-off also against Mozambique away in Maputo on November 15 and Cameroon on November 19, 2019, in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>{{2020 CHAN Qualifier}}<br \/>\nFinal Round, First Leg Results<br \/>\nEthiopia 0-1 Rwanda<br \/>\nBurundi 0-3 Uganda<br \/>\nMadagascar 1-0 Namibia<br \/>\nAlgeria 0-0 Morocco<br \/>\nTunisia 1-0 Libya<br \/>\nMauritania 0-0 Mali<br \/>\nSenegal 1-0 Guinea<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32361 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2019-09-22_at_17.34.20-d0dee.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32362 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2019-09-22_at_17.34.21-4c549.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda has put one foot into the Total African Nations Championships (CHAN) Cameroon 2020 \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32363 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2019-09-22_at_17.34.20_1_-7014d.jpg\" alt=\"The Ethiopian team\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda has put one foot into the Total African Nations Championships (CHAN) Cameroon 2020 after defeating Ethiopia 1-0 in Mekelle on Sunday.<\/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-40062","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\/40062","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=40062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40062"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40062"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}