Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Rwanda: Basketball Coach Nizeyimana Will Be Sorely Missed - AllAfrica.com

Timothy Kisambira

The basketball game game community, and the athletics human race in general, is still coming to clasps with the sudden death of national manager Jean Delaware Dieu Nizeyimana last Tuesday.

Jean Delaware Dieu Nizeyimana was known not simply as a coach, but as person with an tremendous passionateness for basketball.

The secretary full general of the basketball game federation, Lucien Mugabo, said that the decease of the national manager is a large blow for the handbasket family.

"Jean Delaware Dieu had so many programs he wanted to set into practice," Mugabo said. "For example, he was working on a programme to convey basketball game to the grassroots levels, and to schools. He wanted to put up scholarships for pupils as a manner to advance and promote basketball game game in schools."

He added that it would not be easy to recognize those programs now, as Nizeyimana was the chief drive military unit behind them, and had already gone to great lengths to procure sponsorship for the federation.

Bertard Muhire the captain of the national team, lauded Nizeyimana as a great adult male in basketball. "We will lose enormously. With his intense love for the game, he have got been a function theoretical account for us all."

"Unfortunately, we will have to accept what have happened, it is all God's plan," the captain added. "Yet we will never bury what Jean Delaware Dieu did for the sport."

Sports Curate Chief Joseph Habineza also expressed his disbelief. "I could not believe it when they broke the news to me," he said. "He will be sorely missed, because he have contributed enormously to the development of basketball."

Involved in all facets of the sport

Jean Delaware Dieu Nizeyimana started playing basketball game game when he was in secondary school, when he joined a squad called Espoir. He then went for additional surveys in Cameroon and Ivory Coast, where he continued to play his sport. From Cameroon he finished his surveys in Ivory cost.

In 1994 his dreaming began his way; he came back in Rwandese Republic and became a instructor in Nizeyimana came back to Rwandese Republic in 1994 and, as a instructor in Lycée Delaware Kigali, he started Coevals 2000 basketball game game club, which later changed its name to Capital Of Rwanda City basketball club. He became the first manager until the twenty-four hours he have died.

From 2002 to 2004, he was secretary full general of the handbasket federation. He went to South Africa for additional studies, where he trained a first division squad in basket, and obtained a Edgar Lee Masters grade in athletics majoring in basket.

Back in Rwanda, he became the national technical manager in the handbasket federation and manager of surveys in the national Olympic committee. In 2006, he led the national men's squad to the All Africa champs in Angola, where even if they ended 12th out of 16 participating countries, the Rwandan squad impressed a batch of spectators.

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His intense passionateness for basketball game also pushed him to acquire involved in all apects of the sport. Thus, in 2002 he coached the national women's team, and in 2006 he trained the junior national.

At the clip of his death, Jean Delaware Dieu Nizeyimana was a lector at the mental faculty of physical instruction at KIE.

May his psyche remainder in peace.

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