{"id":11001,"date":"2015-10-27T08:18:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2015-10-27T08:18:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:18:24","slug":"cecafa-contradicts-fam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/10\/27\/cecafa-contradicts-fam\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecafa contradicts Fam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C<\/strong>ouncil for East and Central African Football Associations has contradicted Football Association of Malawi (Fam) over Malawi national football team\u2019s proposed participation in next month\u2019s Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Cecafa general secretary, Nicho l as Musonye, on Sunday insisted that Fam had not written to the regional football body over the Flames\u2019 interest in the cup to run from November 22 to December 6,2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they do, yes, we can [consider them]. We want our friends in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia to play. I will talk to the secretary general [Suzgo Nyirenda] tomorrow. We only want one guest team, but none has so far showed interest,\u201d Musonye said.<\/p>\n<p>Nyirenda, who told the press last week that they were waiting for Cecafa\u2019s position on the Flames, yesterday insisted that the request was made. He is hopeful that the Flames will be accommodated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe request was made last week Thursday and on the same day, I talked to Mr. Nicholas Musonye on the matter. I will be following up on our request with Cecafa later this week as they are expected to meet as executive board and they will meet with the sponsors on our request,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s Harambee Stars are the defending champions of the 38th edition of the cup which remains the oldest in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Flames coach Ernest Mtawali is keeping fingers crossed that his charges should be invited to Cecafa, which he believes will speed up his rebuilding exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe usually call a lot of players into camp and most of them do not get the opportunity to play. The Cecafa Cup will give us an opportunity to use the fringe players so that we should have a good picture of how they can contribute to the national team,\u201d he told <em>The Daily Times <\/em>last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to prepare different tactics for different matches. For instance, if we are playing away, the priority is to get at least a point. We need to learn how we can play away to get the point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mtawali specifically mentioned Dalitso Sailesi, Brighton Munthali, Pilirani Zonda and Wonder Jeremani as players that need more game-time<\/p>\n<p>Malawi, who are tuning up for next March\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, are three-time Cecafa Cup winners and last participated in the 2013 event held in Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council for East and Central African Football Associations has contradicted Football Association of Malawi (Fam) over Malawi national football team\u2019s proposed participation in next month\u2019s Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup in Ethiopia. Cecafa general secretary, Nicho l as Musonye, on Sunday insisted that Fam had not written to the regional football body over the Flames\u2019 interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11005,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions\/11005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}