{"id":17623,"date":"2016-01-27T08:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T06:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=17623"},"modified":"2016-01-27T08:48:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T06:48:13","slug":"tigresses-to-invest-part-of-pres-cup-prize-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/01\/27\/tigresses-to-invest-part-of-pres-cup-prize-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigresses to invest part of Pres Cup prize money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self-sponsored Tigresses have revealed plans to invest about 50 percent of the K2 million prize money they got after finishing second in the just-ended Presidential netball trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Tigresses lost to rivals Kukoma Diamonds 41-36 in the final at Blantyre Youth Centre on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s manager Helene Mpinganjira-Tasosa said they plan to use about K1 million on the forthcoming fundraising dinner which the team is organising and is set for February end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNevertheless, we also want the other half to go towards players\u2019 welfare. If we had sponsorship then 60 or 70 percent of the prize money could have gone to the players. It is our wish to motivate the players to continue working hard for the team and their career,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mpinganjira-Tasosa said Tigresses can allocate more funds to the players if well-wishers support the forthcoming fundraising dinner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless we secure extra funding for the dinner, I don\u2019t think we will change our plans. Realistically, we need to give a lot to our players since we do not have sponsors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>As we went to press, Presidential champions, Kukoma Diamonds had not yet strategized on how to use their K4 million prize money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-sponsored Tigresses have revealed plans to invest about 50 percent of the K2 million prize money they got after finishing second in the just-ended Presidential netball trophy. Tigresses lost to rivals Kukoma Diamonds 41-36 in the final at Blantyre Youth Centre on Saturday. The team\u2019s manager Helene Mpinganjira-Tasosa said they plan to use about K1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17623","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\/17623","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=17623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17625,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623\/revisions\/17625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}