adminRwanda joined Uganda in the Cecafa Cup quarter-finals after beating Zimbabwe 2-0 yesterday in Dar-es-Salaam.
The Wasps qualify from Group A with six points from their opening two games.
“We don’t care who our opponents will be in the quarter-finals — we have our targets set,” said new Rwanda coach Milutin “Micho” Sredojevic.
Rwanda’s goals came from Meddie Kegere who opened the scoring midway through the first half before wrapping up the win nine minutes from time.
In yesterday’s late game, host nation Tanzania revived their campaign by beating Djibouti 3-0.
Thomas Ulimwengu and Mwinyi Kzimoto gave the defending champions a 2-0 lead at half-time, before Yusuph Rashid added the gloss to the win in the second half.
Tanzania now lie second in the group with three points, leading their opponents on Saturday — the Warriors — on goal difference alone.
Tanzania will need a draw to qualify, while Zimbabwe must win to be sure of making it through.
Rwanda, meanwhile, have yet to concede a goal in the competition, having beaten Tanzania, who are the defending champions, 1-0 in their opening game.
The bright start is encouraging for Sredojevic, who took charge of Rwanda earlier this month.
“We are in the process of rebuilding, we are working very hard and when you work hard you get the results,” said a man who guided Al Hilal of Sudan to the semi-finals of this year’s Champions League.
“Our Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign was a disaster, so now we are rebuilding.
“We have different goals here: we want to build our team and the confidence of our players — and that means having targets, and that means going past the quarter-finals.
“I don’t want to talk about winning the tournament. I want to talk about the standards which will make it possible for us to win.”
Teams finishing in the top two of the three groups at the Cecafa Cup qualify for the quarter-finals — as do the two best third-placed teams.
Meanwhile Namibia’s FA (NFA) is to go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in its bid to win a place at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.
Namibia say that Burkina Faso should be excluded for fielding an ineligible player in qualifying.
They have appealed to the Confederation of African Football (Caf) but their claim was turned down last week.
The row is over the Burkinabe star Herve Zengue, who was born in Cameroon and who played in two matches against Namibia in the qualifying campaign.
Namibia claim that Zengue does not fulfil Fifa’s eligibility rules but their appeals to Caf have failed and the Burkinabes are in the draw for the Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon early next year.—BBC.
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