Vital'O of Burundi has won the 2013 CECAFA Kagame club cup after thrashing their APR (Rwanda) rivals by 2-0 in the hotly-contested final match at Al Fasher stadium north Darfur on Monday evening in the presence of top CECAFA and Sudanese officials.
Somalia’s international football referee Wiish Haji Yabarow was the centre referee, helped by Mustafa Ibrahim (Sudan) and Souleiman Sheik Bashir (Somalia) as assistant referees, while Hashim Adam (Sudan) was the fourth official of Monday’s final match.
Somalia’s international football referee Wiish Haji Yabarow was the centre referee, helped by Mustafa Ibrahim (Sudan) and Souleiman Sheik Bashir (Somalia) as assistant referees, while Hashim Adam (Sudan) was the fourth official of Monday’s final match.
This was the 3rd CECAFA final match for Wiish Yabarow since 2001 and for Souleiman it was the 8th match since the start of the competition. Souleiman only became a FIFA patch holder this year.
Both teams were committed of winning Monday’s final match in a bid to become the CECAFA club champion holders. They made successive attacks on each other’s goals in the early minutes of the first half but unfortunately none of them happened to score in the first half which ended in 0-0 equality.
But in the 63rd minute of the second half Vital’O got their first goal from striker Amissi Tambwe who wears number 9 shirt for his team, while Deo Ndayishimiye Number 13 scored the second goal in the 65th minute of the match.
After the two successive goals APR made more attempts in a bid to repay for the goals, but all their efforts ended in smoke and the 90 minutes that it takes to play a football match ended in 2-0 in favour of Vital’O who won the trophy.
CECAFA secretary General Nicholas Musonye said the importance of holding the tournament in the war-devastated Sudanese regions was to encourage peace and public integration there repeating that taking a CECAFA competition to war-torn Somalia was another option on the table.
Mr Nicholas Musonye is seen as a peace campaigner in the region and his intention to hold a competition in Somalia was fully welcomed by the Somali people who are recognized as football-loving people by more than 95 percent.