Munyaneza joins Germinal Beerschot

Rwanda’s Belgium based professional player Henri Munyaneza completed a four year deal to move from Jupiler premier league side FC Verbroedering Dender to Germinal Beerschot early this month. Munyaneza didn’t win anything with FC Dender who finished 15th in Belgium’s topflight division, the Jupiler league and has since joined Germinal Beerschot who finished fifth this season. The striker becomes the second Rwandan international who has been signed by a Jupiler league club in a space of one week. Early this month, former APR midfielder Jimmy Mulisa signed a two-year contract with Cercle Brugge K.S.V. from second division club FC Hamme. Munyaneza has refused to play for Rwanda in the on-going 2010 World Cup/Africa Nations Cup qualifiers on financial grounds. Munyaneza who was summoned for national duty late last month prior to Mauritania game along with fellow Europe based professionals, demanded for $3000 (about Frw1.6 millions) for his every appearance throughout the 2010 World Cup/Africa Nations Cup qualifying campaign. Without sensing the danger such unrealistic demands would cause to his international career, the striker, who last played for Amavubi two years ago, was immediately dropped from the list of professionals that had been drafted. But five of his team mates Olivier Karekezi who plies his trade with Norway’s premier league club Hamarkameratene (Norway), Fritz Emeran Nkusi (Levadiakos, Greece), Said Abedi Makasi (Hapoel Be’er Sheva, Israel),Hamad Ndikumana Katauti (Omonia,Cyprus) and Bobo Bola who plays for Swedish second division side, Laundskbois joined the rest of the Amavubi camp in Kigali. But Amavubi Stars are missing the services of Jimmy Mulisa who is out of action for five weeks with a groin injury. Ends

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Munyaneza joins Germinal Beerschot