{"id":18016,"date":"2016-02-02T11:54:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=18016"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:54:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:54:56","slug":"tabitha-chawinga-leaves-for-sweden-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/02\/02\/tabitha-chawinga-leaves-for-sweden-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabitha Chawinga leaves for Sweden Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi women\u2019s national team forward, Tabitha Chawinga, is expected to fly out to Sweden Wednesday for a pre-season training with her team, Kvarnsvedens IK.<\/p>\n<p>Chawinga was on a three-month off-season break after helping Kvarnsvedens IK to an automatic promotion to the top-flight league.<\/p>\n<p>Having netted 43 last season, the former DD Sunshine player has set herself a target of 20 goals next season which kick-offs on March 3, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was training hard to keep myself in good shape. It will be a tough season in the top league, but I am ready to help my team finish on a good position ,\u201d Chawinga said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the expectations are high from the fans as we will be playing in a tough and competitive league. It will not be easy, but I will try my best to score more goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DD Sunshine director, David Dube, also said that Chawinga is in high mood ahead of next season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is a professional footballer and she knows that the league is tough so she has prepared well,\u201d Dube said.<\/p>\n<p>The former DD Sunshine attacker won the Golden Boot Award in her debut season while playing for a third-tier side, Krokom\/Dvassatts with 38 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi women\u2019s national team forward, Tabitha Chawinga, is expected to fly out to Sweden Wednesday for a pre-season training with her team, Kvarnsvedens IK. Chawinga was on a three-month off-season break after helping Kvarnsvedens IK to an automatic promotion to the top-flight league. Having netted 43 last season, the former DD Sunshine player has set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18016","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\/18016","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=18016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18020,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18016\/revisions\/18020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}