Final
Vital'O 2 APR 0
Third place
El-Merreikh 1 Rayon Sport
0
BURUNDI League giants Vital’O Football Club
are the 2013 CECAFA-Kagame Cup Champions.
The Burundians outsmarted three-time champions
APR of Rwanda by beating them 2-0 in an epic final on Monday night at a
jam-packed El Fasher Stadium here in North Darfur State.
This is a first ever regional club soccer
title for Vital'O despite being perennial Burundi representatives in the
39-year-old tournament.
Hamis Tambwe and Deo Ndayishimiye scored the
two goals for Vital’O. Tambwe also emerged the tournament’s best player and top
scorer at six goals. His performance earned him a trophy donated by the host
Governor, Mohammed Kibir.
This is the fourth time Rwandan army
side APR are failing to win a final game in this championship, when playing out
of Kigali.
In 1996 they lost 2-1 to Simba SC away in Dar
es Salaam, lost 3-0 to Tusker in Nairobi in 2000 and SC Villa beat them on the
same margin in Mwanza in 2005. All the three championships APR have won were
staged in Kigali.
Vital’O returns home with $ 0,000 in prize
money while APR takes US$ 20,000. Rwanda President Gen. Paul Kagame offered
this prize money.
In the classification game played earlier in
the day, another Rwandan side Rayon Sport lost the Bronze Medal to a fired-up
El Fasher club, El- Merreikh, who won the third place play-off 1-0. The
Darfurians walked off with a cash prize of US$ 10,000.
This preceded the soccer final where a second
half brace of headed goals gave Vital’O the title and emphasised the country’s
recent good football performance on the international stage.
Many of the players in the Vital’O side
include those that knocked out Kenya after a two-leg tie in the CHAN [African
Nations Champion] qualifiers. Burundi are in the final round of the 2015 CHAN
qualifiers where they will take on Sudan for a Cecafa region’s slot.
It was a colourful closing ceremony that saw a
number of fireworks going up in space.
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