{"id":18692,"date":"2016-02-13T08:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T06:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=18692"},"modified":"2016-02-13T08:44:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T06:44:45","slug":"airtel-challenges-nam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/02\/13\/airtel-challenges-nam\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel challenges Nam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel Malawi has challenged Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) to this year break the record of participating teams set during the inaugural season of Airtel Money national netball trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Close to 1,000 teams participated in the first season in 2013, but the second edition drew 600 teams. This year\u2019s competition is expected to be launched Saturday in Salima.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel Money marketing manager, Tione Kafumbu, said they were encouraging teams to strive to reach the finals of the tournament, whose holders are Tigresses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is their chance to shine. With this being the final season of the Airtel Money national netball trophy we would definitely want to have as many teams as possible enter the tournament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kafumbu said they will also reward outstanding teams, umpires and reporters to make the event thrilling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should also expect an exciting game between Mafco Soldiers and Salima Select. We urge people in Salima to make sure they don\u2019t miss this exciting event,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nam general secretary, Carol Bapu, said all was set for the tournament launched in 2013 to the tune of K360 million, with K70 million earmarked for the national trophy annually, and K28 million for the Queens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel Malawi has challenged Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) to this year break the record of participating teams set during the inaugural season of Airtel Money national netball trophy. Close to 1,000 teams participated in the first season in 2013, but the second edition drew 600 teams. This year\u2019s competition is expected to be launched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18692","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\/18692","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=18692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18698,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692\/revisions\/18698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}