{"id":42921,"date":"2021-02-20T08:52:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T08:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-meets-fifa-s-gianni-infantino\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T08:55:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T08:55:33","slug":"kagame-meets-fifa-s-gianni-infantino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-meets-fifa-s-gianni-infantino\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame meets FIFA\u2019s Gianni Infantino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kagame met with Gianni Infantino yesterday evening as reveals the Twitter handle of Presidency Office.  <\/p>\n<p>Gianni Infantino gifted Kagame a soccer ball, and   jersey carrying hi names.  <\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Sports, Aurore Mimosa Munyangaju was also present as Kagame met with Ifantino.  <\/p>\n<p>Before meeting with President Kagame, Infantino was joined by Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Vincent Biruta and Sports Minister to inaugurate FIFA Regional Development Office in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>The office is headquartered in Nyarugenge district, Kigali city in the building of I&#038;M Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Development Office will oversee football activities in Eastern Africa countries.<\/p>\n<p>Similar offices are headquartered in Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, Johannesburg in South Africa and another one in Ethiopia which has been moved to Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA president, Gianni Infantino has revealed that setting up the office in Kigali is inspired by Rwanda\u2019s ambitions to promote football and other development projects and expressed optimism that the office will help regional countries.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37854 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_kagame_yashyikirijwe_umwambaro_wanditseho_izina_rye_na_nimero_icyenda_isanzwe_yambarwa_na_ba_rutahizamu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37853 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/50959641657_c0f0-5a8fd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37852 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/50959552291_e878-b609d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37851 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/50959542486_fa82-8261f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37850 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/50959542791_6861-a252b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37855 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umukuru_w_igihugu_kagame_paul_yagiranye_ibiganiro_na_perezida_wa_fifa_gianni_infantino._byanitabiriwe_na_misitiri_wa_siporo_munyangaju_auore_mimosa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has met with the president of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), Giovanni Vincenzo \u2018Gianni\u2019 Infantino who came to Rwanda for the inauguration of FIFA Regional Development Office.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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-42921","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 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