Former APR defender Patrick Mutesa Mafisango is in talks with Atraco for a possible move ahead of the start of next season.

The skilled defender who can as also play as a wide midfielder returned to the country last week after months featuring in the DR Congo provincial football leagues.

Mafisango has been training with the taxi-men club since Monday hoping to catch the eye of club bosses and take him on a free transfer.

Atraco influential vice president Ngenzi Issa told Times Sport yesterday that the player has been at the taxi-men camp but no deal has been reached.

"Mafisango is at the club since Monday but we nothing has been finalised to sign him.

We are still talking to him and hopefully, he’d sign for us before the start of the season,” Ngenzi confirmed.

Mafisango left APR about four months ago and club officials regarded him to have gone Absent Without Official Leave [AWOL].

However, this forced the military side to ban him from featuring for the club even though he returned and finally he was among the 17 players axed by the military side this month.

The DR Congo born defender was also handed a six months ban by the continent’s governing football body, CAF after unfair conduct during APR’s second leg tie away to Maranatha de Fiokopo of Togo in the second round of the MTN/CAF Champions League last March.

Atraco has already agreed terms with some of the axed APR players including: Manfred Kizito, Andre Lomami, Alimansi Kadogo, Jean Shyaka, and Ahmed Luzinga.

Other players who have been recruited include: Donatien Tuyizeye (Kiyovu), Peter Kagabo and Charles Kawuma from Kibuye, Olivier Uwingabire (Rayon Sport),Djabir Irankunda(Jeunesse), Eric Twagirimana(Zebres), Jean Marie Kimenyi (Union) and Eric Ndayiragije (AS-Kigali).

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