{"id":55612,"date":"2025-09-14T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/volleyball-rwanda-falls-to-morocco-in-u-20-african-championship-opener\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:28:51","slug":"volleyball-rwanda-falls-to-morocco-in-u-20-african-championship-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/volleyball-rwanda-falls-to-morocco-in-u-20-african-championship-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball: Rwanda falls to Morocco in U-20 African Championship opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The match, held on Saturday night, September 13, 2025, at Cairo\u2019s Hassan Mostafa Hall, saw Rwanda start strongly, taking the first set 25-20. However, Morocco responded by winning the second set 25-16.<\/p>\n<p>The North African side carried their momentum into the third set, overpowering Rwanda 25-13. Rwanda bounced back in the fourth set, winning 25-21 to force a decisive fifth set. Morocco ultimately clinched the match with a 15-11 victory in the tie-break.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda will face Cameroon in their second Group B match on September 15, before closing their group stage against Kenya on September 17, 2025.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-94382 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2025-09-14_at_08.01_04_3_-0b84e.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda U-20 volleyball team opened their African Championship campaign with a 3-2 loss to Morocco.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-94381 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2025-09-14_at_08.01_04_2_-d816c.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda started the match strongly but dropped the second set.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-94380 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2025-09-14_at_08.01_04_1_-e3898.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda\u2019s campaign got off to a rocky start at the African U-20 Championship.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-94379 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2025-09-14_at_08.01_04-d044e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda\u2019s national under-20 volleyball team began their campaign at the African Championship in Egypt with a 3-2 defeat to Morocco in Group B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000094378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55612","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":2000094378,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-09-14_at_08.01_04_1_-389c1.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-09-14_at_08.01_04_1_-389c1.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-09-14_at_08.01_04_1_-389c1.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-09-14_at_08.01_04_1_-389c1.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-09-14_at_08.01_04_1_-389c1.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-09-14_at_08.01_04_1_-389c1.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55612","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=55612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000094378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55612"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55612"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}