{"id":8627,"date":"2022-01-12T08:31:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T08:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/basketball-wcup-qualifiers-rwanda-lines-up-friendly-game-against-egypt"},"modified":"2022-01-12T11:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T11:00:30","slug":"basketball-wcup-qualifiers-rwanda-lines-up-friendly-game-against-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/basketball-wcup-qualifiers-rwanda-lines-up-friendly-game-against-egypt","title":{"rendered":"Basketball WCup qualifiers: Rwanda lines-up friendly game against Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>The national basketball team will play a build-up game against Egypt as part of its preparations for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup African qualifiers. The qualifiers are scheduled to take place from February 25-27, in Senegal.<\/p>\n<p>According to information from the Rwanda Basketball Federation (Ferwaba), the team looks to have more friendly games, but so far, one against Egypt has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries last played against each other in February last year, in a friendly game Rwanda lost 49-84. In the FIBA World Cup 2023 qualifiers, Rwanda is in Group B along with Tunisia, Cameroon and South Sudan. Group B and D qualifiers will be played at the Dakar Arena.<\/p>\n<p><b>Times Sport<\/b><\/p>\n<p>understands Rwanda\u2019s Senegal-born head coach Cheikh Sarr will be naming the provisional squad for the qualifiers on Friday, February 14. The 2023 FIBA World Cup will be held in Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines. The qualifiers format will remain unchanged; with six windows over a 15-month period across the four regions of Africa, Americas, Asia and Europe.<\/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. The national basketball team will play a build-up game against Egypt as part of its preparations for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup African qualifiers. The qualifiers are scheduled to take place from February 25-27, in Senegal. According to information from the Rwanda Basketball Federation (Ferwaba), the team looks to have more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-8627","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>Basketball WCup qualifiers: Rwanda lines-up friendly game against Egypt - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The national basketball team will play a build-up game against Egypt as part of its preparations for the 2023 FIBA Baske ...\" \/>\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\/basketball-wcup-qualifiers-rwanda-lines-up-friendly-game-against-egypt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Basketball WCup qualifiers: Rwanda lines-up friendly game against Egypt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The national basketball team will play a build-up game against Egypt as part of its preparations for the 2023 FIBA Baske ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/basketball-wcup-qualifiers-rwanda-lines-up-friendly-game-against-egypt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-12T08:31:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-12T11:00:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/img-61deb4b8eda49.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\/basketball-wcup-qualifiers-rwanda-lines-up-friendly-game-against-egypt#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/basketball-wcup-qualifiers-rwanda-lines-up-friendly-game-against-egypt\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Basketball WCup qualifiers: Rwanda lines-up friendly game against Egypt\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-12T08:31:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-12T11:00:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/basketball-wcup-qualifiers-rwanda-lines-up-friendly-game-against-egypt\"},\"wordCount\":190,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/basketball-wcup-qualifiers-rwanda-lines-up-friendly-game-against-egypt#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/img-61deb4b8eda49.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/basketball-wcup-qualifiers-rwanda-lines-up-friendly-game-against-egypt#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/basketball-wcup-qualifiers-rwanda-lines-up-friendly-game-against-egypt\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/basketball-wcup-qualifiers-rwanda-lines-up-friendly-game-against-egypt\",\"name\":\"Basketball WCup qualifiers: Rwanda lines-up friendly game against Egypt - 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