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Rwanda: Federation Wants to Develop Home-Grown Basket Talent
AllAfrica.com - Dec 24, 2007
Detecting the talent: Players of Rafiki and Remera battle it out, not only to win the match, but also to make it to one of the top clubs. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); The main purposes of the competition, the federation’s secretary general Lucien Mugabo said, is to create an occasion for coaches to discover talented young Rwandan players and to form a junior national team, while at the same time using it as a strategy of reducing the numbers of foreigners in Rwandan basketball. "The federation’s regulations allow a club to have only two foreigners, yet you find clubs where not a single player is able to speak Kinyarwanda. What they do is to make arrangements with local leaders to obtain forged Rwandan birth certificates," Mugabo explained.
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Brazosport Facts - Brazosport Facts (subscription) - Dec 24, 2007
Jack, who was the third in his family, said the older children always helped prepare for the holiday.