{"id":11350,"date":"2009-11-10T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T17:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2017-09-27T09:41:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T09:41:46","slug":"president-kagame-unveils-world-cup-trophy-kigali-10-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=11350","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame unveils World Cup trophy \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kigali, 10 November 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame has urged Rwandan footballers to make it their objective to win the World Cup, the world\u2019s most prestigious sports trophy someday. This was during the ceremony to show the trophy to Rwandans, part of the ongoing \u2018World Cup Tour\u2019 aimed at allowing soccer fans around the globe to view the coveted trophy at close range ahead of the 2010 tournament in South Africa.<br \/>\nUpon receiving, lifting and displaying the prestigious World Cup trophy to Rwandans who attended the function at Amahoro National Stadium, the President commented \u201chave you seen the trophy? Yes, you have to work hard so that one day Rwanda should be the one to win it.\u201d He was obviously addressing upcoming Rwandan footballers.<\/p>\n<p>He joked that although the trophy had landed in the hands of Rwandans, it would be very safe in Kigali\u00a0 because there was no need to cling on it since Rwandans would be able to conventionally work hard, compete for it and win it one day, causing thunderous laughter all around the stadium. \u201cIt may not happen during my term of office, but my hope is that it will happen during my lifetime,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame, on behalf of all Rwandans, thanked FIFA, CoCa Cola and organisers of the World Cup Tour for having brought the trophy to Rwanda. He said the trophy is synonymous with football; which is in turn a symbol of peace, unity and prosperity because of the unique way it brings people together.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali, 10 November 2009 President Kagame has urged Rwandan footballers to make it their objective to win the World Cup, the world\u2019s most prestigious sports trophy someday. This was during the ceremony to show the trophy to Rwandans, part of the ongoing \u2018World Cup Tour\u2019 aimed at allowing soccer fans around the globe to view the coveted trophy at close range ahead of the 2010 tournament in South Africa. Upon receiving, lifting and displaying the prestigious World Cup trophy to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11735,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions\/11735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}