Nyasa Big Bullets defender, Pilirani Zonda, has\u2014due to a lower back injury\u2014been ruled out of Malawi national football team\u2019s away game against Guinea in the Orange Africa of Nations qualifiers on the weekend of March 23.<\/p>\n
Zonda got injured during the national team\u2019s training session on Sunday. He will be out of action for two weeks, according to the Flames team doctor, Levison Mwale.<\/p>\n
Mwale said the Bullets defender was released from camp to undergo treatment at Kachere Rehabilitation Centre in Blantyre.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs it is case now, Zonda can\u2019t be in the camp because he will not make it for the trip to Guinea. He needs to fully recover and I am sure with the treatment he is receiving now, it won\u2019t take long,\u201d Mwale said.<\/p>\n
Zonda\u2019s injury is also a big blow to his club as he will miss this weekend\u2019s action in the Nyasa Challenge Cup against the Zimbabwe\u2019s Premier League side, Dynamos FC.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, on-and-off Flames defender, Harry Nyirenda, has admitted that it will not be easy to reclaim his position in the current squad.<\/p>\n
Nyirenda was the first foreign-based player to join the Flames camp on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Black Leopards defender said he is happy to return to the national team after almost a year without getting a call-up under coach Ernest Mtawali.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boys are displaying good football and I have seen that it is not automatic that I will secure my position. I have observed that joining the camp so early will help me to do better,\u201dNyirenda said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nyasa Big Bullets defender, Pilirani Zonda, has\u2014due to a lower back injury\u2014been ruled out of Malawi national football team\u2019s away game against Guinea in the Orange Africa of Nations qualifiers on the weekend of March 23. Zonda got injured during the national team\u2019s training session on Sunday. He will be out of action for two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19934","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\/19934","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=19934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19942,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19934\/revisions\/19942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}