{"id":57357,"date":"2023-11-09T15:01:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/sitting-volley-captain-upbeat-ahead-of-2023-world-cup"},"modified":"2023-11-09T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:08:42","slug":"sitting-volley-captain-upbeat-ahead-of-2023-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/sitting-volley-captain-upbeat-ahead-of-2023-world-cup","title":{"rendered":"Sitting volley captain upbeat ahead of 2023 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Peter Kamasa<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Rwanda sitting volleyball men\u2019s team captain Emile Cadet Vuningabo has said that they are ready and confident ahead of the upcoming 2023 World Para Volley Sitting Volleyball World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The double-gender event will be held from November 11 to 18 in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda&#8217;s men\u2019s team was pooled in tough Group A alongside Egypt and Iraq. Mossad Rashad\u2019s team will need to sweat for results to survive early elimination from the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI noticed our team played stronger than ever before and players are ready for the competition. This time, we have good spikers on the team and we want to take game by game so that we can secure a place in the next round,\u201d said captain Emile Cadet Vuningabo.<\/p>\n<p>The Sitting Volleyball World Cup will qualify one male and one female team for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Egypt leads men\u2019s rankings while Rwanda follows in second place in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The champions of the competition, both men and women, will qualify for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda tops African women&#8217;s rankings followed by Egypt while Egypt leads men\u2019s rankings ahead of Rwanda in second place.<\/p>\n<p>Africa will be represented by Algeria, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Egypt in the men\u2019s World Cup while only two nations; Rwanda and hosts Egypt, will represent the continent in the women\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Group B of women has giants Canada, Brazil, Slovenia, Ukraine, and the Netherlands. For men, Group B will have Iran, Japan, and Algeria. Group C has Brazil, China, India, and Nigeria while Great Britain, France, Ukraine, and Germany are in Group D.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s national team was drawn in Group B against hosts Egypt, Mongolia, and giants China and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s category, Rwanda will face hosts Egypt, and Iraq, in Group A.<\/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>Peter Kamasa Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Rwanda sitting volleyball men\u2019s team captain Emile Cadet Vuningabo has said that they are ready and confident ahead of the upcoming 2023 World Para Volley Sitting Volleyball World Cup. The double-gender event will be held from November 11 to 18 in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Rwanda&#8217;s men\u2019s team was pooled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":57356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[760,763,526,4189,4192,758,1073],"class_list":["post-57357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-egypt","tag-ministry-of-sports","tag-npc","tag-rwanda","tag-sitting-volleyball"],"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>Sitting volley captain upbeat ahead of 2023 World Cup - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rwanda sitting volleyball men\u2019s team captain Emile Cadet Vuningabo has said that they are ready and confident ahead of t ...\" \/>\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\/sitting-volley-captain-upbeat-ahead-of-2023-world-cup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sitting volley captain upbeat ahead of 2023 World Cup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rwanda sitting volleyball men\u2019s team captain Emile Cadet Vuningabo has said that they are ready and confident ahead of t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/sitting-volley-captain-upbeat-ahead-of-2023-world-cup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-09T15:01:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-09T15:08:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/sm_1699529832.737284.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"666\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/sitting-volley-captain-upbeat-ahead-of-2023-world-cup#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/sitting-volley-captain-upbeat-ahead-of-2023-world-cup\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Sitting volley captain upbeat ahead of 2023 World Cup\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-09T15:01:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-09T15:08:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/sitting-volley-captain-upbeat-ahead-of-2023-world-cup\"},\"wordCount\":326,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/sitting-volley-captain-upbeat-ahead-of-2023-world-cup#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/sm_1699529832.737284.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Egypt\",\"Ministry of Sports\",\"NPC\",\"Rwanda\",\"Sitting Volleyball\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/sitting-volley-captain-upbeat-ahead-of-2023-world-cup#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/sitting-volley-captain-upbeat-ahead-of-2023-world-cup\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/sitting-volley-captain-upbeat-ahead-of-2023-world-cup\",\"name\":\"Sitting volley captain upbeat ahead of 2023 World Cup - 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