From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2010 - 12:02:39 EST
Amavubi regroups for CHAN on March 5 Specials
RWANDA’S Amavubi Stars will hold a one-week residential camp before hosting
Eritrea on March 12-14 in the preliminary round of the 2011 African Nation
Championship (CHAN) qualifiers.
Ferwafa Chief Executive Officer Jules Kalisa says that the team will start
preparations on March 5.
“They will camp for seven days before playing Eritrea in Kigali. We are
concentrating our resources on a young team for this tournament,” Kalisa
said.
Like other nations, Rwanda is chasing for a ticket to next year’s African
Nation Championship after missing out on last year’s edition following a
humiliating 0-4 loss to Sudan at the preliminary stage.
After playing the first leg in Kigali on the weekend of March 12-14, the
team heads to Asmara for the return leg on the weekend of March 26-28.
The winner will then face either Tanzania or the winner between Somalia and
Djibouti. The tournament, to be hosted in Sudan will run from January 21 to
February 10.
With the central zone allotted two qualifying spots; Rwanda will have to
wrestle Burundi, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, Somalia, Tanzania and
Eritrea for one of the slots. Caf has doubled the number of
participating teams to 16. Qualifiers will be played from six zones.
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