{"id":4452,"date":"2016-12-05T12:43:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T12:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2016-12-05T12:43:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T12:43:04","slug":"three-football-matches-postponed-at-prince-louis-rwagasore-national-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/three-football-matches-postponed-at-prince-louis-rwagasore-national-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Three football matches postponed at Prince Louis Rwagasore national stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4453\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4453\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/stade-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Louis Rwagasore stadium ground full of water on 3 December \" width=\"374\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/stade-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/stade-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/stade.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Louis Rwagasore stadium ground full of water on 3 December<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMagara Star\u201d versus \u201cLes Lierres\u201d, \u201cInter-Star\u201d versus \u201cBuja City\u201d and \u201cMessager Buja\u201d versus \u201cVital\u2019o\u201d were supposed to play on 3 and 4 December in Primus League Championship. \u201cMagara Star\u201d versus \u201cLes Lierres\u201d soccer teams which started to play on 3 December didn\u2019t continue in the second half due to the heavy rain as the Bujumbura national stadium ground was full of water.<\/p>\n<p>The referee decided to stop the game and postponed it to 6 December following the federation\u2019s regulations.<\/p>\n<p>J\u00e9r\u00e8mie Manirakiza, the Secretary General of Burundi Football Federation says it is due to wrong water pipes around the national stadium and it is not the first time to interrupt the match. \u201cWhen it rains, the water can\u2019t flow easily and the national stadium ground is full of water\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Manirakiza says the Burundi Football Federation has no means to rehabilitate the national stadium which has been damaged by the heavy rainfall like other several infrastructures in Bujumbura capital.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Giesen, the chairperson of \u201cLes Lierres\u201d soccer team says she is disappointed by what happened on 3 December. \u201cOur team was prepared to play and the supporters expected to watch a full match. The Prince Louis Rwagasore stadium must have a ground where all national and international teams can play on\u201d, she says.<\/p>\n<p>For her, the competent institutions should solve the problem and rehabilitate the ground.<br \/>\nThe water pipes were also blocked in November 2015 when there was a football match between the national teams of Burundi and RDC in the qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMagara Star\u201d versus \u201cLes Lierres\u201d, \u201cInter-Star\u201d versus \u201cBuja City\u201d and \u201cMessager Buja\u201d versus \u201cVital\u2019o\u201d were supposed to play on 3 and 4 December in Primus League Championship. \u201cMagara Star\u201d versus \u201cLes Lierres\u201d soccer teams which started to play on 3 December didn\u2019t continue in the second half due to the heavy rain as the Bujumbura [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,670],"tags":[895,849,896],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4454,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions\/4454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}