{"id":4321,"date":"2012-11-27T06:27:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T06:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/commercial-companies-urged-to-support-football\/"},"modified":"2012-11-27T06:28:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T06:28:46","slug":"commercial-companies-urged-to-support-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/commercial-companies-urged-to-support-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Companies urged to Support Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Minister of Youth and ICT Jean Philbert Nsengimana has called upon commercial companies to support football academies across Rwanda.}}<\/p>\n<p>The minister noted Saturday after a monthly community work in Kiramuruzi Sector in Gatsibo District where the Ministry of Youth and ICT invited Telecommunication Companies in Rwanda to support Gatsibo Football Academy (GFA). <\/p>\n<p>Minister Nsengimana said that competitors in business can work together to help local football academies to get sports equipment and be competitive at international level. <\/p>\n<p>Diego Camberos, CEO of Tigo Rwanda said that they\u2019re happy to support this football academy in Gatsibo. <\/p>\n<p>They donated much equipment such as bags for players. Diego<br \/>\nstressed Tigo will always support football in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Gatsibo Football Academy got also support from Airtel Rwanda where they received football gear; Marcellin Paluku, CEO of Airtel Rwanda said that they will help Gatsibo Football Academy to partner with Manchester United\u00a0Football Club because Airtel has also a partnership with this English professional\u00a0football\u00a0club, based in\u00a0Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda Football Association (FERWAFA) President\u00a0Celestin Ntagungira said that Rwanda\u00a0prioritized\u00a0football among children; FERWAFA will support football academies across Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Gatsibo Football Academy is training 314 children aged\u00a04-17. Ministry of Sport and Culture, FERWAFA, Airtel Rwanda, Tigo Rwanda,\u00a0ISPA and Star Times have donated to this academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Minister of Youth and ICT Jean Philbert Nsengimana has called upon commercial companies to support football academies across Rwanda.}} The minister noted Saturday after a monthly community work in Kiramuruzi Sector in Gatsibo District where the Ministry of Youth and ICT invited Telecommunication Companies in Rwanda to support Gatsibo Football Academy (GFA). Minister Nsengimana said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-4321","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\/4321","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}