{"id":51091,"date":"2024-07-27T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T11:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-and-infantino-discuss-football-development-in-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T15:45:26","slug":"president-kagame-and-infantino-discuss-football-development-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-and-infantino-discuss-football-development-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame and Infantino discuss Football development in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

The meeting occurred on Thursday, July 26, 2024, before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, which bring together over 10,000 athletes from various sports disciplines.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Infantino and President Kagame met at FIFA’s new offices in Paris \u2018to discuss ongoing cooperation and new opportunities to further develop football in Rwanda,\u201d reads a statement from the President\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

During the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games, Rwanda is represented by eight individuals who will compete in cycling, athletics, swimming, and fencing.<\/p>\n

Last year, Infantino was re-elected to head the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) for a second term running from 2023 to 2027, during the 73rd FIFA Congress held in Kigali. <\/p>\n

President Kagame thanked him for his role in the initiative to renovate Amahoro Stadium, which is among the top stadiums in Africa.<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame and FIFA President Gianni Infantino have met in Paris, France, where the 2024 Olympic Games are underway and discussed the development of football in Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000073241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000073241,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/i_was_delighted_to_welcome_president_paul_kagame_of_rwanda_to_the_fifa_office_in_paris_president_kagame_his_government_and_the_rwandan_football_association_have_been_outstanding_partners_for_fifa_in__1_.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/i_was_delighted_to_welcome_president_paul_kagame_of_rwanda_to_the_fifa_office_in_paris_president_kagame_his_government_and_the_rwandan_football_association_have_been_outstanding_partners_for_fifa_in__1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/i_was_delighted_to_welcome_president_paul_kagame_of_rwanda_to_the_fifa_office_in_paris_president_kagame_his_government_and_the_rwandan_football_association_have_been_outstanding_partners_for_fifa_in__1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/i_was_delighted_to_welcome_president_paul_kagame_of_rwanda_to_the_fifa_office_in_paris_president_kagame_his_government_and_the_rwandan_football_association_have_been_outstanding_partners_for_fifa_in__1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/i_was_delighted_to_welcome_president_paul_kagame_of_rwanda_to_the_fifa_office_in_paris_president_kagame_his_government_and_the_rwandan_football_association_have_been_outstanding_partners_for_fifa_in__1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/i_was_delighted_to_welcome_president_paul_kagame_of_rwanda_to_the_fifa_office_in_paris_president_kagame_his_government_and_the_rwandan_football_association_have_been_outstanding_partners_for_fifa_in__1_.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51091","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000073241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51091"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51091"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}