{"id":6695,"date":"2021-12-17T16:46:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/bugesera-defender-samuel-kato-enjoying-debut-season"},"modified":"2021-12-17T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:46:39","slug":"bugesera-defender-samuel-kato-enjoying-debut-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/bugesera-defender-samuel-kato-enjoying-debut-season","title":{"rendered":"Bugesera defender Samuel Kato enjoying debut season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Bugesera FC defender Samuel Kato Nemeyimana insists he is having a good time in his maiden season in the Rwanda premier league with the Nyamata based club.<\/p>\n<p>The talented right-back joined Bugesera FC in September this year from Ugandan outfit Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) on a free transfer and admits he is gradually adapting to football in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe season has not been bad, it has been very good so far for me. There is a lot of competition among the different teams which is very good,\u201d Kato told Times Sport<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just need to play more matches to get my fitness level very high and also get used to the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy target for the season is to get used to the Rwandan league and as a player, I want to help my team Bugesera FC to finish in the top five.\u201d He added.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old right-back was one of the best defenders in the Ugandan League for the past three seasons and featured prominently for KCCA in continental competitions. On the international scene, he earned a call up to play for the Amavubi in the world cup qualifier against Uganda.<\/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. Bugesera FC defender Samuel Kato Nemeyimana insists he is having a good time in his maiden season in the Rwanda premier league with the Nyamata based club. The talented right-back joined Bugesera FC in September this year from Ugandan outfit Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) on a free transfer and admits he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-6695","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>Bugesera defender Samuel Kato enjoying debut season - Rwanda<\/title>\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\/all-news\/bugesera-defender-samuel-kato-enjoying-debut-season\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bugesera defender Samuel Kato enjoying debut season\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. 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