{"id":56468,"date":"2025-12-04T20:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-rising-football-stars-depart-for-regional-schools-championship\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:07:22","slug":"rwanda-s-rising-football-stars-depart-for-regional-schools-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-rising-football-stars-depart-for-regional-schools-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\u2019s rising football stars depart for regional schools’ championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The regional tournament, scheduled for December 6\u20139, 2025, will bring together ten countries from the East and Central African region as they vie for places in next year\u2019s continental finals for school-based teams.<\/p>\n

Rwanda is among the nations fielding both boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 squads. The teams left Kigali early on Thursday, December 4, 2025, ahead of the CAF African Schools Championship CECAFA Zonal Qualifiers.<\/p>\n

Before departure, Louise Ndengeyingoma, Chairperson of the Governance and Legal Commission at FERWAFA, encouraged the young players to aim high and uphold discipline.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou carry the national flag on your chest,\u201d she said. \u201cApproach your matches with focus, display discipline, and remember to balance your education with your talent. This journey is not just about winning a single game; it is about raising Rwanda\u2019s profile.\u201d<\/p>\n

The boys\u2019 tournament will feature Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Somalia.<\/p>\n

The girls\u2019 competition will include Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and South Sudan.<\/p>\n

The qualifiers will also feature young referees participating under CAF\u2019s talent development programme and will include D-level coaching clinics.<\/p>\n

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Rwanda\u2019s U15 boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 national teams have departed for Kampala, Uganda, to compete in the qualifying round of the 2026 CAF African Schools Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000098656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56468","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":2000098656,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/g7t0ncxwuaa4f1c_1_-d46d9.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/g7t0ncxwuaa4f1c_1_-d46d9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/g7t0ncxwuaa4f1c_1_-d46d9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/g7t0ncxwuaa4f1c_1_-d46d9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/g7t0ncxwuaa4f1c_1_-d46d9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/g7t0ncxwuaa4f1c_1_-d46d9.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56468","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=56468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000098656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56468"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56468"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}