{"id":26206,"date":"2016-06-15T09:33:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T07:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=26206"},"modified":"2016-06-15T09:33:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T07:33:14","slug":"gabadinho-banks-on-favourite-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/06\/15\/gabadinho-banks-on-favourite-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabadinho banks on favourite venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Malawi National Team striker, Gabadinho Mhango, scored a hat-trick on Tuesday in 3-0 win over Angola, he made it four goals in two back-to-back games at the Independence Stadium in Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>The South Africa-based striker was the hero of the day when he scored the first hat-trick of the tournament, the first hat-trick a Malawian player has ever scored in the history of Cosafa Castle Cup.<\/p>\n<p>However there is something remarkable about this venue for the Bidvest Wits-bound striker.<\/p>\n<p>It was at the same venue that he scored his first Flames goal in 2013 when Malawi beat Namibia 1-0 in the 2014 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Safari Hotel, the former Nyasa Big Bullets striker said he was happy to return to what is becoming his favourite hunting ground.<\/p>\n<p>Mhango has since set a target to finish as a top goal scorer of the regional competition which winds up on June 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems I am lucky with this stadium because last time when we came here, I also scored. This is my fourth goal playing here. I would like to follow the footsteps of those who did the same with our national team before\u201d, Mhango said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Malawi National Team striker, Gabadinho Mhango, scored a hat-trick on Tuesday in 3-0 win over Angola, he made it four goals in two back-to-back games at the Independence Stadium in Namibia. The South Africa-based striker was the hero of the day when he scored the first hat-trick of the tournament, the first hat-trick a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26206","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\/26206","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=26206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26207,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26206\/revisions\/26207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}