THE FIRST YOUTH LEAGUE IN RWANDA:

KIMISAGARA YOUTH LEAGUE

2 ESPERANZA JUNE 2018

A MESSAGE FROM PHILIPP SCHOENLAUB

Hello everybody,

The Kimisagara Youth League which I have started last year in June

has now its second season! The first match days have already been played. For everyone who doesn’t know the Kimisagara Youth League: It is an U17 youth league which is organized by the Rwandan NGO Esperance in cooperation with German volunteers. 8 Teams from Kimisagara and

its neighboring sectors are playing against each other over a period of 3 months.

With the youth league, we want to give Rwandan youth the opportunity to play football on a regular basis and on a competitive level. Though Rwanda has a lot of young talented players and a huge amount of youth teams, there is no one who organizes a youth league.

The only competitive matches most teams play are very irregular friendly matches. Our goal therefore is, to establish a youth league in Kigali as a whole by instructing small youth leagues with the example of the Kimisagara Youth League in Kigali’s different sectors. Within the next ten years we want to have youth league structures in Kigali’s three districts: Nyarugenge, Gasabo and

Kicukiro. Those three youth league systems will together form the major Kigali Youth League.

Because many Rwandan teams lack of training materials as jerseys, cones, footballs, bibs, etc. prizes in form of football and training materials are given to the participating teams after each Season. This equipment

of youth teams with good

materials should improve their trainings.

Great thanks go to FC Energie Cottbus, the German Embassy Kigali, Ingo Dansberg, the Spremberger SV 1862, BSG Traktor Leuthen e.V., FuPa Brandenburg and the Fußball-Landesverband Brandenburg who support this project by donating football equipment.

As Rwandan youth is given the opportunity to show their skills and improve their talents within a competition and at the same time Rwandan Premier division and Second division teams are given a platform for talent detection, ....................Pg 3

Philipp Schoenlaub

Spectators The trophy

3 ESPERANZA JUNE 2018

A MESSAGE FROM PHILIPP SCHOENLAUB

Esperance F.C vs Gitikinyoni F.C

Editor:Dominique Uwimana

ESPERANCEP.O. Box 4613 KigaliTel : (+250) 788442220Email: ajskesperance@yahoo.frWebsite: www.kffhcesperance.net/kimisagarayouthleague.com

Pg 2................this project of a youth league system in Kigali is an improvement for Rwandan Football as a whole. As we have a stable Kimisagara Youth League, we are getting in contact with potential partners, like the Rwandan Football Federation FERWAFA to support us by establishing a youth league structure in Kigali. Lately, we have been in different Rwandan Newspapers, Radios and Televisions. Below there are some of the links. Check them

out. They are in Kinyarwanda though. 89.7 Contact FM:https://www.youtube.com/TPT5vjXuM8&app=desktop

RuhagoYacu Ltd: http://r u h a g o y a c u . c o m / … /ubusabe-bwa-esperance-ku-buyobozi-b…

Thanks to Jannik Skorna we now have a website www.kimisagarayouthleague.com where you can follow the news. It is still in process, but will be finished within the next weeks.

Greetings,Philipp

Finished games at Maison des JeunesKimisagara

DATE MATCH SCORE

04/03/2018 Hirwa T.C. vs 20 Stars 2 - 2

10/03/2018 Gitikinyoni F.C. vs Snipers F.C. 3 - 1

10/03/2018 20 Stars vs Esperance F.C. 3 - 3

11/03/2018 Étoile du Rwanda vs Green Stars F.A. 2 - 0

11/03/2018 Comejoga F.C. vs Hirwa T.C. 3 - 4

24/03/2018 Esperance F.C. vs Gitikinyoni F.C. 3 - 2

24/03/2018 Snipers F.C. vs Étoile du Rwanda 2 - 2

31/03/2018 Green Stars F.A. vs Comejoga F.C. 2 - 1

05/05/2018 20 Stars vs Gitikinyoni F.C. 4 - 0

05/05/2018 Green Stars F.A. vs Snipers F.C. 2 - 2

06/05/2018 Esperance F.C. vs Comejoga F.C. 2 - 0

06/05/2018 Hirwa T.C. vs Étoile du Rwanda 6 - 1

12/05/2018 Gitikinyoni F.C. vs Green Stars F.A. 2 - 1

12/05/2018 Comejoga F.C. vs 20 Stars 2 - 3

13/05/2018 Snipers F.C. vs Hirwa T.C. 1 - 3

02/06/2018 Comejoga F.C. vs Gitikinyoni F.C. 1 - 1

02/06/2018 Hirwa T.C. vs Green Stars F.A. 2 - 4

03/06/2018 20 Stars vs Étoile du Rwanda 5 - 0

03/06/2018 Esperance F.C. vs Snipers F.C. 1 - 3

standings on Friday 8th June 2018

Finished and Next games at Maison des Jeunes Kimisagara

DATE MATCH AND SCORE TIME

09/06/2018 Gitikinyoni F.C. 1 - 3 Hirwa T.C. 2:00 PM

09/06/2018 Étoile du Rwanda 0 - 3 Comejoga F.C. 4:00 PM

10/06/2018 Green Stars F.A. 1 - 6 Esperance F.C. 2:00 PM

10/06/2018 Snipers F.C. 1 - 1 20 Stars 4:00 PM

07/07/2018 Étoile du Rwanda vs Gitikinyoni F.C. 2:00 PM

07/07/2018 Esperance F.C. vs Hirwa T.C. 4:00 PM

08/07/2018 Comejoga F.C. vs Snipers F.C. 2:00 PM

08/07/2018 20 Stars vs Green Stars F.A. 4:00 PM

Po Club P W D L F A GD Pts1 20 Stars 5 3 2 0 17 7 10 11

2 Esperance F.C 5 3 1 1 15 8 7 10

3 Hirwa F.C 5 3 1 1 17 11 6 10

4 Green Stars F.A 5 2 1 2 9 9 0 7

5 Gitikinyoni F.C 5 2 1 2 10 10 - 2 7

6 Snipers F.C 5 1 2 2 11 11 - 2 5

7 Etoile du Rwanda 5 1 1 3 19 19 - 14 4

8 Comejoga F.C 5 0 1 4 12 12 - 5 1