{"id":21988,"date":"2016-04-05T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=21988"},"modified":"2016-04-05T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T07:21:27","slug":"tasaukadala-retain-airtel-netball-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/04\/05\/tasaukadala-retain-airtel-netball-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasaukadala retain Airtel netball trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Tasaukadala Sisters retained Blantyre Rural Airtel Money netball trophy after beating Young Professionals 49-31 during a final match at Blantyre Youth Centre on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify for the final, Tasaukadala beat Gulf 52-13 in the semifinal, whereas Young Professionals humbled Snippers 31-18.<\/p>\n<p>In a post-match interview, Tasaukadala Captain, Grace Chimtanda, said they deserved the district trophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played with our lungs out because we didn\u2019t want to disappoint our sponsor [Gerald Tasaukadala], who was present. He has been supporting us for some time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The sponsor, Tasaukadala, challenged his team to aim higher.<\/p>\n<p>Tasaukadala Sisters and Young Professionals have qualified for the regional finals, joining Blantyre Urban champions, Chilomoni Sisters and runners-up, Shizaella.<\/p>\n<p>Blantyre and Districts Netball Committee Chairperson, Khungekile Matiya, and General Secretary, Annie Hanjahanja, said they were excited with the performance of the teams.<\/p>\n<p>National Youth Football Association Chairperson, Mabvuto Missi, who was the guest of honour during the final, asked the players to be disciplined if they are to realise their dreams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Tasaukadala Sisters retained Blantyre Rural Airtel Money netball trophy after beating Young Professionals 49-31 during a final match at Blantyre Youth Centre on Sunday. To qualify for the final, Tasaukadala beat Gulf 52-13 in the semifinal, whereas Young Professionals humbled Snippers 31-18. In a post-match interview, Tasaukadala Captain, Grace Chimtanda, said they deserved the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21988","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\/21988","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=21988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21999,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988\/revisions\/21999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}