{"id":46810,"date":"2023-07-07T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T11:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/usengimana-on-trial-at-belgiums-kfc-merelbeke"},"modified":"2023-07-07T11:53:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T11:53:45","slug":"usengimana-on-trial-at-belgiums-kfc-merelbeke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/usengimana-on-trial-at-belgiums-kfc-merelbeke","title":{"rendered":"Usengimana on trial at Belgium\u2019s KFC Merelbeke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b> Edmund Okai Gyimah<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Rwandan striker Danny Usengimana is on a one-month trial with Belgian fourth-tier side KFC Merelbeke, hoping to be signed in the ongoing summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Times Sports understands that the Police FC attacker has been in Belgium for the past week. He featured for Merelbeke in their 9-1 defeat to Gent.<\/p>\n<p>Usengimana, 27, was an integral part of Police FC in the 2022\/23 season when he scored a couple of crucial goals for them including the winner against AS Kigali on February 4, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He previously featured for clubs including the now defunct Isonga, Singida in Tanzania, APR and Police FC.<\/p>\n<p>Merelbeke finished sixth in the 2022\/23 Belgian Second Amateur Division league table with 53 points from 34 games. They are looking for strikers to beef up their squad.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Usengimana is on a one-month trial with Belgian fourth-tier side KFC Merelbeke.<\/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>Edmund Okai Gyimah Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Rwandan striker Danny Usengimana is on a one-month trial with Belgian fourth-tier side KFC Merelbeke, hoping to be signed in the ongoing summer transfer window. Times Sports understands that the Police FC attacker has been in Belgium for the past week. He featured for Merelbeke in their 9-1 defeat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-46810","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":"<!-- 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>Usengimana on trial at Belgium\u2019s KFC Merelbeke - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rwandan striker Danny Usengimana is on a one-month trial with Belgian fourth-tier side KFC Merelbeke, hoping to be signe ...\" \/>\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\/usengimana-on-trial-at-belgiums-kfc-merelbeke\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Usengimana on trial at Belgium\u2019s KFC Merelbeke\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rwandan striker Danny Usengimana is on a one-month trial with Belgian fourth-tier side KFC Merelbeke, hoping to be signe ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/usengimana-on-trial-at-belgiums-kfc-merelbeke\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-07T11:42:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-07T11:53:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/07\/sm_1688718143.180484.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"656\" \/>\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\/usengimana-on-trial-at-belgiums-kfc-merelbeke#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/usengimana-on-trial-at-belgiums-kfc-merelbeke\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Usengimana on trial at Belgium\u2019s KFC Merelbeke\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-07T11:42:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-07T11:53:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/usengimana-on-trial-at-belgiums-kfc-merelbeke\"},\"wordCount\":158,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/usengimana-on-trial-at-belgiums-kfc-merelbeke#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/07\/sm_1688718143.180484.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\/usengimana-on-trial-at-belgiums-kfc-merelbeke#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/usengimana-on-trial-at-belgiums-kfc-merelbeke\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/usengimana-on-trial-at-belgiums-kfc-merelbeke\",\"name\":\"Usengimana on trial at Belgium\u2019s KFC Merelbeke - 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