The Rwanda national football team, Amavubi will play Tanzania in a friendly match on December 9 in Dar es Salaam as the latter celebrate their 53rd Independence Day anniversary.

Amavubi head coach Stephen Constantine will name a provisional squad tomorrow that will start training on Wednesday in preparation for the encounter.

In an exclusive interview with Times Sports, Constantine revealed, "This is an opportunity for us to field the U-23 side that will play the Olympic qualifiers in March next year.” Rwanda will face Somalia in the first round of qualification and victory will secure a face off against Uganda and the winner of that tie will then take on Egypt.