{"id":107514,"date":"2025-08-14T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/manzi-delighted-to-score-in-ahli-tripoli-title-decider"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:26:54","slug":"manzi-delighted-to-score-in-ahli-tripoli-title-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/manzi-delighted-to-score-in-ahli-tripoli-title-decider","title":{"rendered":"Manzi Delighted to Score in Ahli Tripoli Title Decider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Al Ahli Tripoli defender Thierry Manzi has expressed his delight after his goal helped Al Ahli Tripoli clinch 2024-2025 Libya Premier League title.<\/p>\n<p>The Rwandan international scored the opening goal through a powerful header before Hamdou Elhouni added the second as the Tripoli-based side beat rivals Al-Ahly Benghazi 2-0 at Citta\u0300 di Meda Stadium in Italy on Tuesday, August 12, to be crowned champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first target was to win the match and lift the title but scoring a goal was my best moment. Scoring against our main opponent was very nice to me,\u201d Manzi told Times Sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t hide my satisfaction with the way we won the game. We have achieved our target, then we can relax a little bit, and set ourselves other targets for the CAF Champions League,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis victory was important for us and for our fans and beating rival is something we have to cherish and players and in team in general\u201d Manzi added<\/p>\n<p>Manzi, 29, previously played youth football at Isonga FC before syarting his career at senior level at Marines FC, Rayon Sports and APR FC and AS Kigali in Rwanda as well as AS FAR in Morocco among others.<\/p>\n<p>He currently plays with countryman and his national team captain Bizimana Djihad at Al Ahli Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>They are now set to play Champions League football with the Libyan champions while runners-up Al Ahly Benghazi will play 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. Al Ahli Tripoli defender Thierry Manzi has expressed his delight after his goal helped Al Ahli Tripoli clinch 2024-2025 Libya Premier League title. The Rwandan international scored the opening goal through a powerful header before Hamdou Elhouni added the second as the Tripoli-based side beat rivals Al-Ahly Benghazi 2-0 at Citta\u0300 di [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":107513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[758,6734],"class_list":["post-107514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-rwanda","tag-thierry-manzi"],"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>Manzi Delighted to Score in Ahli Tripoli Title Decider - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Al Ahli Tripoli defender Thierry Manzi has expressed his delight after his goal helped Al Ahli Tripoli clinch 2024-2025 ...\" \/>\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\/manzi-delighted-to-score-in-ahli-tripoli-title-decider\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manzi Delighted to Score in Ahli Tripoli Title Decider\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Al Ahli Tripoli defender Thierry Manzi has expressed his delight after his goal helped Al Ahli Tripoli clinch 2024-2025 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/manzi-delighted-to-score-in-ahli-tripoli-title-decider\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T15:13:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T15:26:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/08\/sm_1755172597.677492.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"569\" \/>\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\/manzi-delighted-to-score-in-ahli-tripoli-title-decider#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/manzi-delighted-to-score-in-ahli-tripoli-title-decider\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Manzi Delighted to Score in Ahli Tripoli Title Decider\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-14T15:13:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-14T15:26:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/manzi-delighted-to-score-in-ahli-tripoli-title-decider\"},\"wordCount\":260,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/manzi-delighted-to-score-in-ahli-tripoli-title-decider#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/08\/sm_1755172597.677492.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Rwanda\",\"Thierry Manzi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/manzi-delighted-to-score-in-ahli-tripoli-title-decider#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/manzi-delighted-to-score-in-ahli-tripoli-title-decider\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/manzi-delighted-to-score-in-ahli-tripoli-title-decider\",\"name\":\"Manzi Delighted to Score in Ahli Tripoli Title Decider - 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