{"id":54579,"date":"2025-06-20T11:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bakame-returns-to-rayon-sports-as-goalkeeping-coach\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T11:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:47:25","slug":"bakame-returns-to-rayon-sports-as-goalkeeping-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bakame-returns-to-rayon-sports-as-goalkeeping-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakame returns to Rayon Sports as goalkeeping coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rayon Sports FC is undergoing a major rebuild as it eyes a strong campaign both in domestic competitions and on the continental stage in the CAF Confederation Cup.<\/p>\n

As part of its technical restructuring, the club has been unveiling new signings to its coaching staff. Following the appointment of Afahmia Lotfi as head coach, Rayon has now brought in Bakame to take charge of the goalkeeping department.<\/p>\n

The club\u2019s Football Administrative Director, Irambona Eric, confirmed the deal via social media, announcing that talks with Bakame had been successfully concluded.<\/p>\n

Bakame had been with Bugesera FC since 2023, initially joining as a player before hanging up his gloves and taking on the role of goalkeeping coach. <\/p>\n

However, towards the end of last season, as Bugesera prepared to face Rayon on matchday 28 of the Rwanda Premier League, he was suspended in a tactical move by the club.<\/p>\n

This marks a homecoming for the 36-year-old, who previously donned the Rayon jersey as a player until 2018 before making a move to Kenyan giants AFC Leopards.<\/p>\n

Over the course of his playing career, Bakame featured for several top clubs including APR FC, Police FC, AS Kigali, Tusker FC (Kenya), and Atraco FC. <\/p>\n

He now replaces Mazimpaka Andr\u00e9 as Rayon\u2019s new goalkeeping coach, bringing both experience and familiarity back to the Blues’ dressing room.<\/p>\n

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Former Rayon Sports goalkeeper Ndayishimiye Eric, popularly known as ‘Bakame’, has returned to the club as a goalkeeping coach for the upcoming 2025\/26 football season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000089444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","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":2000089444,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bakame-8-3f5a8.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bakame-8-3f5a8.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bakame-8-3f5a8.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bakame-8-3f5a8.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bakame-8-3f5a8.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bakame-8-3f5a8.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54579","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000089444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54579"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54579"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}