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Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Amavubi captain Haruna Niyonzima has dismissed any talk of retirement with the 31-year-old revealing he still wants to play for more years. Rwanda\u2019s most-capped player, has insisted that he is \u2018still strong\u2019 and does not know when he will retire from international football.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know when I will retire, I am just enjoying my playing career, I wish to achieve the best that Rwandans want and deserve from us. I feel happy and I want to keep on playing and winning games, to score goals, to enjoy myself. This is my motivation to come to train, to entertain the fans with my passion.\u201d The AS Kigali forward said.<\/p>\n

Niyonzima, who made his senior international debut for Rwanda in 2006, achieved the feat after featuring 104 times for Amavubi and has scored six times in the process, becoming the only Rwanda international to achieve the milestone.<\/p>\n

He currently features for AS Kigali having previously played for Etincelles, Rayon Sports, APR, and AS Kigali in the Rwanda Premier League and Tanzanian Giants Young Africans SC and Simba.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Rwanda. Amavubi captain Haruna Niyonzima has dismissed any talk of retirement with the 31-year-old revealing he still wants to play for more years. Rwanda\u2019s most-capped player, has insisted that he is \u2018still strong\u2019 and does not know when he will retire from international football. \u201cI don\u2019t know when I will retire, I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18],"tags":[760,763,2652,2653,758],"class_list":["post-4310","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-haruna-niyonzima","tag-retirement-reports","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"\nHaruna Niyonzima dismisses retirement reports - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Amavubi captain Haruna Niyonzima has dismissed any talk of retirement with the 31-year-old revealing he still wants to p ...\" \/>\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\/haruna-niyonzima-dismisses-retirement-reports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Haruna Niyonzima dismisses retirement reports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amavubi captain Haruna Niyonzima has dismissed any talk of retirement with the 31-year-old revealing he still wants to p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/haruna-niyonzima-dismisses-retirement-reports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-11T10:01:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-11T10:25:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/11\/img-618cef90d1348.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"847\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"491\" \/>\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\/haruna-niyonzima-dismisses-retirement-reports#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/haruna-niyonzima-dismisses-retirement-reports\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Haruna Niyonzima dismisses retirement reports\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-11T10:01:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-11T10:25:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/haruna-niyonzima-dismisses-retirement-reports\"},\"wordCount\":193,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/haruna-niyonzima-dismisses-retirement-reports#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/11\/img-618cef90d1348.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Haruna Niyonzima\",\"retirement reports\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/haruna-niyonzima-dismisses-retirement-reports#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/haruna-niyonzima-dismisses-retirement-reports\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/haruna-niyonzima-dismisses-retirement-reports\",\"name\":\"Haruna Niyonzima dismisses retirement reports - 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