{"id":17846,"date":"2016-01-29T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=17846"},"modified":"2016-01-29T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T07:33:08","slug":"township-rollers-unveil-phiri-jnr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/01\/29\/township-rollers-unveil-phiri-jnr\/","title":{"rendered":"Township Rollers unveil Phiri Jnr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi national football team up-and-coming play-maker, Gerald Phiri Jnr, has started a new lease of life after completing his four-month loan move to Botswana Be Mobile Premier League side, Township Rollers.<\/p>\n<p>The table-topping Gaborone side unveiled the 22-year-old Flames player on Wednesday to unite with former Be Forward Wanderers captain, Lawrence Majawa.<\/p>\n<p>Phiri will return to South Africa\u2019s BidVest Wits after the loan when his permanent residency papers are expected to be ready. Lack of competitive football has affected the midfielder\u2019s form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel excited today and diligently look forward to work with a competitive squad, and learn a lot from the seniors here,\u201d Phiri told <em>www.rollersfc.com. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that I shall have to perform at my level best to book my place into the line-up to gain experience and game-time, no options, and help the club reach the supporters\u2019 objectives. I now passionately look ahead to play my first game with Township Rollers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi national football team up-and-coming play-maker, Gerald Phiri Jnr, has started a new lease of life after completing his four-month loan move to Botswana Be Mobile Premier League side, Township Rollers. The table-topping Gaborone side unveiled the 22-year-old Flames player on Wednesday to unite with former Be Forward Wanderers captain, Lawrence Majawa. Phiri will return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17846","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\/17846","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=17846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17851,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17846\/revisions\/17851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}