New Harvest Football Center coach has appealed the football federation, Ferwafa and other sponsors to support his cause to develop young players in the country.

John Nzabarinda, also a level-one tennis coach, said this at the Center’s training ground in Gikondo, a Kigali suburb. The main objective for setting up New Harvest Football Center in 1997, according to Nzabarinda is to break idleness among the youths by developing them into recognizable players.

"My pleasure it to see a well disciplined player from this Center join the national team, the Amavubi Stars,” he noted.

He pointed out the current national team first choice goalkeeper Jean Claude Ndoli, a product of New Harvest Football Centre. The national football governing body, Nzabarinda said, last gave support to the Center near eight years ago.

Nzabarinda said that he is not ready to form a club as he prefers to remain an independent coach. Some of the center’s players, however, had a chance to play in the under-17 national team during last year’s Cecafa youth championship held in the Burundian capital Bujumbura..

Emmanuel Muhire captained the Rwandan team, which also had his counterparts Moses Kanamugire, Eric Nshyimiyimana and Jean Claude Niyibizi.

Nzabarinda appealed to Ferwafa and other potential sponsors to support the centre, which he said was set up to groom talented young Rwandese players like the current national team and APR goal keeper.

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