{{Burundi League giants Vital\u2019O Football Club are the 2013 CECAFA-Kagame Cup Champions. }} <\/p>\n
The Burundians outsmarted three-time champions APR of Rwanda by beating them 2-0 in an epic final on Monday night at a jam-packed El Fasher Stadium here in North Darfur State. <\/p>\n
This is a first ever regional club soccer title for Vital’O despite being perennial Burundi representatives in the 39-year-old tournament. <\/p>\n
Hamis Tambwe and Deo Ndayishimiye scored the two goals for Vital\u2019O. Tambwe also emerged the tournament\u2019s best player and top scorer at six goals. His performance earned him a trophy donated by the host Governor, Mohammed Kibir. <\/p>\n
This is the fourth time Rwandan army side APR are failing to win a final game in this championship, when playing out of Kigali. <\/p>\n
In 1996 they lost 2-1 to Simba SC away in Dar es Salaam, lost 3-0 to Tusker in Nairobi in 2000 and SC Villa beat them on the same margin in Mwanza in 2005. All the three championships APR have won were staged in Kigali. <\/p>\n
Vital\u2019O returns home with $ 0,000 in prize money while APR takes US$ 20,000. Rwanda President Gen. Paul Kagame offered this prize money. <\/p>\n
In the classification game played earlier in the day, another Rwandan side Rayon Sport lost the Bronze Medal to a fired-up El Fasher club, El- Merreikh, who won the third place play-off 1-0. The Darfurians walked off with a cash prize of US$ 10,000. <\/p>\n
This preceded the soccer final where a second half brace of headed goals gave Vital\u2019O the title and emphasised the country\u2019s recent good football performance on the international stage. <\/p>\n
Many of the players in the Vital\u2019O side include those that knocked out Kenya after a two-leg tie in the CHAN [African Nations Champion] qualifiers. Burundi are in the final round of the 2015 CHAN qualifiers where they will take on Sudan for a Cecafa region\u2019s slot. <\/p>\n
It was a colourful closing ceremony that saw a number of fireworks going up in space. <\/p>\n
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