{"id":55382,"date":"2025-08-27T12:26:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mukura-vs-to-sign-senegalese-goalkeeper-marc-philips-arona-diouf\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:30:14","slug":"mukura-vs-to-sign-senegalese-goalkeeper-marc-philips-arona-diouf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mukura-vs-to-sign-senegalese-goalkeeper-marc-philips-arona-diouf\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukura VS to sign Senegalese goalkeeper Marc Philips Arona Diouf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Huye-based club is seeking to strengthen its goalkeeping department following uncertainty over the future of Ugandan goalkeeper Nicolas Sebwato, whose contract has not yet been renewed.<\/p>\n<p>Sebwato has also been linked with a potential move to APR FC, following concerns over the team\u2019s goalkeeping weaknesses exposed during recent friendly matches.<\/p>\n<p>Sources confirmed to IGIHE that Diouf has already agreed terms with Mukura VS and is expected to arrive in Kigali this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Senegalese goalkeeper featured on Tuesday when his national team lost to Morocco on penalties, missing out on a place in the CHAN 2024 final.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Diouf has played five matches and conceded only two goals \u2014 one against Congo Brazzaville and another against Morocco in the tournament which is being held in East Africa.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-93269\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gd-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rwandan side Mukura Victory Sports has reached an agreement with Senegalese goalkeeper Marc Philips Arona Diouf, who is currently featuring in the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN).\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan side Mukura Victory Sports has reached an agreement with Senegalese goalkeeper Marc Philips Arona Diouf, who is currently featuring in the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000093268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55382","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":2000093268,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gd.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gd.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gd.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gd.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gd.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gd.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55382","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=55382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000093268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55382"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55382"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}