{"id":36296,"date":"2023-02-23T17:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title"},"modified":"2023-02-23T17:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:45:50","slug":"police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title","title":{"rendered":"Police out to defend handball league title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Police handball side only have their eyes set on retaining the league title when the new season commences on February 25.<\/p>\n

The law enforcers are the reigning champions of the 2022 handball league and club head coach Antoine Ntabanganyimana said that the ambition remains the title ahead 2023 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we won the last cup in 2022, we want to win this year’s championship so that we represent Rwanda in the champions league that will take place in Brazzaville in October,\u201d Ntabanganyimana told Times Sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have everything to win the title and we are well prepared,\u201d he added<\/p>\n

Police conduct their training sessions twice a day in Kimisagara.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s 2023 handball league will bring together nine teams namely Police, Gicumbi, APR, Adegi-Gituza, ES Kigoma, Vision Jeunesse Nouvelle, College Saint Martin Hanika, UR-Huye and Nyakabanda.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, seven teams which include Kiziguro, Gicumbi, Three Stars, Nyamasheke, GS Kitabi, UR-Rukara and UR-Huye will be competing in the women\u2019s handball championship.<\/p>\n

Full Squad:<\/b><\/p>\n

Gilbert Mutuyimana, Jean Baptiste Habimana, Theophile Niyigaba, Gaston Kanyandekwe, Jean D’amour Ntamugabumwe, Philippe Siboniyo, Patrick Turambane, Jean de Dieu Ntambara, Guido Urangwanimpuhwe, Moi\u0308se Iradukunda, Thimotee Nshimiyimana, Alexis Nshimiyimana, Viateur Rwamanywa, Emmanuel Murwanashyaka, Yves Umuhire, Samuel Mbesutunguwe, Samuel Bananimana, Jackson Uwimana, Celestin Reba, Fred Nshimyumuremyi and Dieudonne Nsengiyumva.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Rwanda<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. Police handball side only have their eyes set on retaining the league title when the new season commences on February 25. The law enforcers are the reigning champions of the 2022 handball league and club head coach Antoine Ntabanganyimana said that the ambition remains the title ahead 2023 season. \u201cAs we won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-36296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"\nPolice out to defend handball league title - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Police handball side only have their eyes set on retaining the league title when the new season commences on February 25 ...\" \/>\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\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police out to defend handball league title\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Police handball side only have their eyes set on retaining the league title when the new season commences on February 25 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-23T17:01:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-23T17:45:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677159096.55.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"644\" \/>\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\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police out to defend handball league title\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-23T17:01:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-23T17:45:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title\"},\"wordCount\":227,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677159096.55.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title\",\"name\":\"Police out to defend handball league title - Rwanda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677159096.55.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-23T17:01:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-23T17:45:50+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Police handball side only have their eyes set on retaining the league title when the new season commences on February 25 ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677159096.55.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677159096.55.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":644,\"caption\":\"Police out to defend handball league title\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Police out to defend handball league title\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\",\"name\":\"Rwanda\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Police out to defend handball league title - Rwanda","description":"Police handball side only have their eyes set on retaining the league title when the new season commences on February 25 ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Police out to defend handball league title","og_description":"Police handball side only have their eyes set on retaining the league title when the new season commences on February 25 ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title","og_site_name":"Rwanda","article_published_time":"2023-02-23T17:01:28+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-02-23T17:45:50+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":644,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677159096.55.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Police out to defend handball league title","datePublished":"2023-02-23T17:01:28+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-23T17:45:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title"},"wordCount":227,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677159096.55.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Rwanda","Rwanda"],"articleSection":["all news","Sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title","name":"Police out to defend handball league title - Rwanda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677159096.55.jpg","datePublished":"2023-02-23T17:01:28+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-23T17:45:50+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Police handball side only have their eyes set on retaining the league title when the new season commences on February 25 ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677159096.55.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677159096.55.jpg","width":1000,"height":644,"caption":"Police out to defend handball league title"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/police-out-to-defend-handball-league-title#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Police out to defend handball league title"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/","name":"Rwanda","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}