Tanzania started their Cecafa U17 Championship with a convincing 3-1 win over hosts Rwanda in Rubavu on Monday.
Kassim Yahya and Omar Abbas scored for the victors while Rwanda grabbed the only goal courtesy of Eric Irihamye.
Yahya scored the opener in the 10th minute before Abbas scored in the 14th and in the 61st minute to earn a brace and seal an opening victory for Tanzania.
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Irihamye’s 18th-minute goal could only postpone but not stop Tanzania’s charge towards victory in a match that was rescheduled from Saturday to Monday.
Cecafa rescheduled the whole programme of the tournament after disqualifying South Sudan following a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) test that revealed four players were over-aged.