{"id":105209,"date":"2025-07-10T17:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/rayon-president-vows-to-keep-pressure-on-apr"},"modified":"2025-07-10T17:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:35:36","slug":"rayon-president-vows-to-keep-pressure-on-apr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/rayon-president-vows-to-keep-pressure-on-apr","title":{"rendered":"Rayon President Vows to Keep Pressure on APR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Rayon Sports president Thadde\u0301e Twagirayezu insists his club won\u2019t let arch rivals APR easily rule the league as far as the tile is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Twagurayezu was responding to remarks recently made by APR FC\u2019s honorary president, Gen Mubarakh Muganga who argued that Rayon shouldn\u2019t even be coming close and stand in their way in the title race.<\/p>\n<p>APR FC won the 2024\/25 league title with just four points separating them with Rayon who finished in second place. Rayon were at the time leading the table until the 28th match day when Bugsera FC beat them 2-1 in a match that was shaped by refereeing controversies which led it to be played twice.<\/p>\n<p>Losing the title to APR left and Rayon fans and the club management so shocked but Twagirayezu said the team has no intention of backing down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlayers, don\u2019t allow anyone to breathe down your necks,\u201d said Gen Muganga during a speech he delivered at Intare Fan Club\u2019s 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPush them far. This business of someone sticking too close is not good, and it doesn\u2019t represent what Rwandan army forces stand for\u2014and you are just like them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the remarks, Twagirayezu said, \u201clook, if someone is this close to you (touching his shoulder), can you really feel at peace? Personally, I\u2019d rather see someone coming from the front than sneaking up behind me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for breathing down their necks, we\u2019re not going to stop. They know it too\u2014we excite them, but we also make them nervous.<\/p>\n<p>APR FC have dominated Rwandan football in recent years, winning six consecutive league titles, with their most recent coming in the 2024\/25 season, during which they also won the Peace Cup\u2014beating Rayon Sports 2-0 in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Rayon\u2019s last league title came in the 2018\/19 season. Both clubs will represent Rwanda in CAF competitions this year. APR, as champions, will play in the CAF Champions League while Rayon will take part in the CAF Confederation Cup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Rayon Sports president Thadde\u0301e Twagirayezu insists his club won\u2019t let arch rivals APR easily rule the league as far as the tile is concerned. Twagurayezu was responding to remarks recently made by APR FC\u2019s honorary president, Gen Mubarakh Muganga who argued that Rayon shouldn\u2019t even be coming close and stand in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":105208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[1863,2676,7597,758],"class_list":["post-105209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-apr-fc","tag-rayon-sports","tag-rivarly","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rayon President Vows to Keep Pressure on APR - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rayon Sports president Thadde\u0301e Twagirayezu insists his club won\u2019t let arch rivals APR easily rule the league as far as ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/rayon-president-vows-to-keep-pressure-on-apr\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rayon President Vows to Keep Pressure on APR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rayon Sports president Thadde\u0301e Twagirayezu insists his club won\u2019t let arch rivals APR easily rule the league as far as ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/rayon-president-vows-to-keep-pressure-on-apr\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-10T17:24:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-10T17:35:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/07\/sm_1752156315.375634.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"666\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/rayon-president-vows-to-keep-pressure-on-apr#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/rayon-president-vows-to-keep-pressure-on-apr\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rayon President Vows to Keep Pressure on APR\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-10T17:24:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-10T17:35:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/rayon-president-vows-to-keep-pressure-on-apr\"},\"wordCount\":355,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/rayon-president-vows-to-keep-pressure-on-apr#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/07\/sm_1752156315.375634.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APR FC\",\"Rayon Sports\",\"RIVARLY\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/rayon-president-vows-to-keep-pressure-on-apr#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/rayon-president-vows-to-keep-pressure-on-apr\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/rayon-president-vows-to-keep-pressure-on-apr\",\"name\":\"Rayon President Vows to Keep Pressure on APR - 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