When the team first arrived in the area, defender Kayiranga Leon felt feverish and was checked by the team doctor, but it was fine.
He was rushed to Nyagatare Hospital where tests showed that he was suffering from Malaria and Typhoid. This made him unable to train the team yesterday on Saturday and when we were writing this story he was still sick.
The team trained without Kayiranga Leo and went back to their accommodation to have dinner, after which the players and others continued to chat and watch the German league game where Bayern Munich defeated Borussia Dortmund 2-0.
While watching this game, the defender Hakizimana Abdoulkarim said that it was normal for them to eat, it was not normal because he continued to eat so much that he was taken to the hospital of the team in the hours of noon and night.
It was not easy for this young man because he was very sick, so he spent the night in Nyagatare hospital and this Sunday morning when we were writing this story he was still in the hospital and it is expected that he will be sent to be taken by ambulance to Kigali city for treatment as approved by the who gave us this information.
He said “He is still very sick so now we are planning how the ambulance is going to take him to Kigali, he is not easy now he is not breathing and we have been training.”
Another player who had a problem but he is not as serious as the others is Nyarugabo Moise who plays in the middle of the field and although he did not go to the hospital but he also got sick when the team arrived in Nyagatare.
One of the people from AS Kigali who talked to Kigali Today said that they don’t understand how three players are sick and all of them are healthy and none of them show any signs of illness.
He said, “I don’t know what happened to us in Nyagatare, it’s really a mystery. How could you kill three people who came alive, it’s not possible, it’s not normal.”
Why is this great game being talked about so much?
At the 25th day of the season, Sunrise FC is in 13th place with 26 points, just four points ahead of the last-placed Etoile de l’Est with 22 points. the rest, including the one they play today, may find themselves relegated to the second round, while on the other hand, AS Kigali is in seventh place with 34 points.
The reporter asked if it is not common in Rwandan football that the players may have the permission of the team they are going to play and are sick, but he was answered that apart from the fact that the medical tests show that the players are really sick, it is not possible because the Honorary President of AS Kigali’s Shema Fabrice allowed them to score six times.
This manager, who the team relies on now, even though he is not in its immediate management, but managed it, said that if Sunrise FC wins, each player will receive 180,000 Frw. three months (January, February, March 2024).
