{"id":536181,"date":"2026-03-12T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536181\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:39:08","slug":"stephen-constantine-globetrotting-englishman-appointed-rwanda-head-coach-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536181\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Constantine: Globetrotting Englishman appointed Rwanda head coach for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Englishman Stephen Constantine has been reappointed head coach of Rwanda’s men’s team on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n

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

Constantine had a spell in charge of Rwanda from May 2014 to January 2015 before he left to manage India.<\/p>\n

A statement from the Rwanda Football Federation said Constantine will bring “leadership, technical expertise and dedication to advancing Rwanda’s football ambitions”.<\/p>\n

London-born Constantine has enjoyed a varied managerial career<\/a> in some of football’s more offbeat locations.<\/p>\n

In addition to Rwanda and India he has also managed Nepal, Malawi, Sudan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n

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

Constantine’s first match in charge will be against Grenada in Kigali as part of the biennial Fifa Series friendly tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Englishman Stephen Constantine has been reappointed head coach of Rwanda’s men’s team on a two-year contract. The 63-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-536181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}