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Espoir FC De Mutimbuzi
Espoir Football Club de Mutimbuzi or simply Espoir Mutimbuzi is a football (soccer) club from Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ... based in Mutimbuzi. Their home venue is 2,000 capacity Stade Municipal. The team currently plays in Burundi Premier League the top level of Burundian football. References External links Soccerway Football clubs in Burundi {{Burundi-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gatumba
The village of Gatumba lies on the western side of Burundi, near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The place is known for a massacre that took place at a refugee camp connected to the village. Massacre On August 13, 2004, a refugee camp in Gatumba was the scene of one of the largest civilian massacres carried out in Burundi in recent years. A force of armed combatants, many of them members of the Forces for National Liberation (FNL), massacred at least 166 Congolese civilians and wounded another 106. The FNL is a predominantly Hutu rebel movement known for its hostility to Tutsi and the victims were largely Banyamulenge, a group often categorized with Tutsi. The FNL is believed to have been behind a series of other attacks, including the December 28, 2000 Titanic Express massacre. Brigadier-General Germain Niyoyankana, head of the Burundian army, accused Congolese troops of complicity in the killings. Following the FNL's admission of responsibility for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burundi
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and East Africa. It is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and southeast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Lake Tanganyika lies along its southwestern border. The capital cities are Gitega and Bujumbura, the latter being the country's largest city. The Great Lakes Twa, Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more than 200 of those years, Burundi was an independent Kingdom of Burundi, kingdom, until the beginning of the 20th century, when it became a German colony. After the First World War and German Revolution of 1918–19, Germany's defeat, the League of Nations "mandated" the territory to Belgium. After the Secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burundi Premier League
The Burundi Ligue A, also called Primus Ligue for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division in football in Burundi. The league was formed in 1972 and has 16 teams. They play 30 rounds home and away during a season. Current clubs The following sixteen clubs are competing in the Primus Ligue during the 2022–23 season. Previous champions * 1963: Stella Matutina FC (Bujumbura) * 1964: Stella Matutina FC (Bujumbura) * 1965: Maniema Fantastique (Bujumbura) * 1966: Maniema Fantastique (Bujumbura) * 1967: Maniema Fantastique (Bujumbura) * 1968: Maniema Fantastique (Bujumbura) * 1969: Espoir FC (Bujumbura) * 1970: Inter FC (Bujumbura) ''**'' * 1971: TP Bata (Bujumbura) ''***'' * 1972: Sports Dynamic (Bujumbura) ''**'' * 1973: ''not held, due to civil war late in the year 1972 when massacres occurred to disrupt the start of the league that was meant to end in 1973'' * 1974: Inter FC (Bujumbura) ''**'' * 1975: Inter FC (Bujumbura) * 1976: Prince Louis FC (Bujumbura) ''**' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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