Defenders Abdul Rwatubyaye and Ange Mutsinzi will miss Rayon Sports’ CAF Confederation Cup first-round, first leg match against Mali’s Onze Créateurs, scheduled for on March 11 in Bamako.

The match will played at Stade Modibo Keita in Bamako before Rayon hosts the second leg on March 18, at Amahoro National Stadium in Kigali.

Coach Djuma Masudi has revealed that Rwatubyaye miss the game because he has not received his Caf License, while Mutsinzi was sent off in preliminary round, second leg clash against Al Salam Wau of South Sudan, which Rayon won 2-0 to advance 6-0 on aggregate having won the first leg 4-0 in Juba.

The Peace Cup winners are aiming at reaching in the group stages for Africa’s second biggest football club competition for the first time since 2004 when the competition was established.

Rayon Sports’ best achievement in a CAF competition was reaching in the quarter-finals of the CAF Cup in 2002.

The competition, which ceased to exist in 2004, was played by domestic leagues runners-up of member associations who had not qualified to one of the two pre-existing CAF international club competitions; the African Cup of Champions Clubs or the African Cup Winners’ Cup.

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