{"id":117026,"date":"2025-12-09T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/players-snubbing-national-team-face-one-year-suspension"},"modified":"2025-12-09T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:34:08","slug":"players-snubbing-national-team-face-one-year-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/players-snubbing-national-team-face-one-year-suspension","title":{"rendered":"Players Snubbing National Team Face One-Year Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Players who refuse invitations to represent the national team risk facing a one-year suspension from all basketball activities,<\/p>\n<p>The warning was issued by local basketball governing body (FERWABA) following recent cases of players who declined national team call ups despite having no injuries, as Rwanda prepared for FIBA World Cup 2027 Qualifiers \u2013 Window 1 held in Tunisia in November. Rwanda at the time finished at the bottom of Group C without a single victory.<\/p>\n<p>The players in question are Ntore Habimana and his APR teammate William Robeyns, who both cited personal reasons behind their unavailability.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second time Ntore has turned down a national team invitation, having also skipped the FIBA Afrobasket qualifiers in Senegal last year.<\/p>\n<p>During its General Assembly meeting on December 6, FERWABA resolved that, \u201cAny player who refuses to accept an invitation to play for the national team, even if their club releases them, will be suspended from all basketball activities for a period of one year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The federation\u2019s executive committee also called on clubs to play an active role in encouraging their athletes to honor national team duties.<\/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. Players who refuse invitations to represent the national team risk facing a one-year suspension from all basketball activities, The warning was issued by local basketball governing body (FERWABA) following recent cases of players who declined national team call ups despite having no injuries, as Rwanda prepared for FIBA World Cup 2027 Qualifiers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":117024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[8977,8978,758],"class_list":["post-117026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-fiba-world-cup-2027-qualifiers","tag-ntore-habimana","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>Players Snubbing National Team Face One-Year Suspension - 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