{"id":39965,"date":"2026-03-13T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/stephen-constantine-globetrotting-englishman-appointed-rwanda-head-coach-for-second-time\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T04:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:00:29","slug":"stephen-constantine-globetrotting-englishman-appointed-rwanda-head-coach-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/stephen-constantine-globetrotting-englishman-appointed-rwanda-head-coach-for-second-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Constantine: Globetrotting Englishman appointed Rwanda head coach for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Englishman Stephen Constantine has been reappointed head coach of Rwanda&#8217;s men&#8217;s team on a two-year contract.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 63-year-old will leave his current managerial role with Cypriot club APEA Akrotiri to take up the position on 16 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Constantine had a spell in charge of Rwanda from May 2014 to January 2015 before he left to manage India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A statement from the Rwanda Football Federation said Constantine will bring &#8220;leadership, technical expertise and dedication to advancing Rwanda&#8217;s football ambitions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London-born Constantine has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cr56jr7zdrqo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">enjoyed a varied managerial career<\/a> in some of football&#8217;s more offbeat locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In addition to Rwanda and India he has also managed Nepal, Malawi, Sudan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rwanda are 130th in the Fifa rankings and bidding to qualify for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) for just the second time following their debut appearance in 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Constantine&#8217;s first match in charge will be against Grenada in Kigali as part of the biennial Fifa Series friendly tournament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cj0d6j6m2rno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Englishman Stephen Constantine has been reappointed head coach of Rwanda&#8217;s men&#8217;s team on a two-year contract. The 63-year-old will leave his current managerial role with Cypriot club APEA Akrotiri to take up the position on 16 March. Constantine had a spell in charge of Rwanda from May 2014 to January 2015 before he left to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39967,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39965\/revisions\/39967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}