{"id":18136,"date":"2022-05-24T11:41:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T11:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/striker-hussein-shaban-challenges-as-kigali-to-retain-peace-cup"},"modified":"2022-05-24T12:10:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:10:37","slug":"striker-hussein-shaban-challenges-as-kigali-to-retain-peace-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/striker-hussein-shaban-challenges-as-kigali-to-retain-peace-cup","title":{"rendered":"Striker Hussein Shaban challenges AS Kigali to retain Peace Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>AS Kigali striker Hussein Tchabalala Shaban has urged his teammates to stay focused and prove to everyone they are good enough to retain this year\u2019s Peace Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Kigali sponsored side will take on APR in the final in June. APR has won the tournament 15 times and are the favourities to triumph in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe final is always unpredictable and we anticipate a tough encounter because APR is a very good team, but we are hungry for silverware. This is the only chance to pay back our fans that have been loyal all season,\u201d the Burundian striker said.<\/p>\n<p>AS Kigali eliminated Police 3-2 on aggregate while APR beat rivals Rayon Sports 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis season the Peace was more competitive because every team has improved but I think we did enough to prepare for tough opponents,\u201d the forward added.<\/p>\n<p>The competition winner will represent Rwanda in next season\u2019s CAF Confederations Cup tournament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. AS Kigali striker Hussein Tchabalala Shaban has urged his teammates to stay focused and prove to everyone they are good enough to retain this year\u2019s Peace Cup title. The City of Kigali sponsored side will take on APR in the final in June. APR has won the tournament 15 times and are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-18136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","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>Striker Hussein Shaban challenges AS Kigali to retain Peace Cup - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AS Kigali striker Hussein Tchabalala Shaban has urged his teammates to stay focused and prove to everyone they are good ...\" \/>\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\/striker-hussein-shaban-challenges-as-kigali-to-retain-peace-cup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Striker Hussein Shaban challenges AS Kigali to retain Peace Cup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AS Kigali striker Hussein Tchabalala Shaban has urged his teammates to stay focused and prove to everyone they are good ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/striker-hussein-shaban-challenges-as-kigali-to-retain-peace-cup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-24T11:41:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-24T12:10:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_39-628ccb25497f0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1407\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1069\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/striker-hussein-shaban-challenges-as-kigali-to-retain-peace-cup#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/striker-hussein-shaban-challenges-as-kigali-to-retain-peace-cup\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Striker Hussein Shaban challenges AS Kigali to retain Peace Cup\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-24T11:41:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-24T12:10:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/striker-hussein-shaban-challenges-as-kigali-to-retain-peace-cup\"},\"wordCount\":179,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/striker-hussein-shaban-challenges-as-kigali-to-retain-peace-cup#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_39-628ccb25497f0.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/striker-hussein-shaban-challenges-as-kigali-to-retain-peace-cup#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/striker-hussein-shaban-challenges-as-kigali-to-retain-peace-cup\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/striker-hussein-shaban-challenges-as-kigali-to-retain-peace-cup\",\"name\":\"Striker Hussein Shaban challenges AS Kigali to retain Peace Cup - 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