{"id":26633,"date":"2016-06-22T11:34:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T09:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=26633"},"modified":"2016-06-22T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T09:34:44","slug":"bloemfontein-celtic-mum-on-chiukepo-msowoya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/06\/22\/bloemfontein-celtic-mum-on-chiukepo-msowoya\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloemfontein Celtic mum on Chiukepo Msowoya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa Absa Premier Soccer League side, Bloemfontein Celtic, have refused to confirm if they would recall Nyasa Big Bullets forward Chiukepo Msowoya for trials this month.<\/p>\n<p>Msowoya underwent trials at Celtic last year and he was told that he would be recalled when the transfer window opens in June.<\/p>\n<p>Now with the window open, Msowoya confirmed that Celtic have not hinted of his recall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, they promised to invite me again this month but there has not been any communication from them. I am still waiting for their communication,\u201d he said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>On whether he was losing patience with the delay, the Flames vice-captain was elusive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will comment more on the matter if they communicate to me. I will not say anything at the moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Celtic Team Manager, John Maduka, said the club had not decided on the potential transfer of Msowoya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently on holiday and our offices are closed. We are considering several transfer options, but we will come up with concrete decisions next week. Call me next week, I will give you our final position,\u201d said the former Flames skipper in a telephone interview from his base in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Msowoya had a poor outing at the Cosafa Cup in Namibia where he failed to score and sparkle in three matches as the Flames were knocked out of the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>He has not scored in the last five national team games having netted in 2-1 loss to Guinea at Kamuzu Stadium in March.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this season, Msowoya signed a one-year deal with Bullets. Last season, the striker won the TNM Golden Boot Award with 14 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Bullets\u2019 General Secretary, Kelvin Moyo, said the club had not decided on the compensation procedures in the event that Msowoya would be roped in by Celtic.<\/p>\n<p>Msowoya had a stint at Orlando Pirates and Platinum Stars from 2010 to 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Celtic have released players, including Keamogetse Wolff, Wade Jooste and Alushavhiwe Marubini while loaning out Julius Likontsane and Thabang Matuka..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa Absa Premier Soccer League side, Bloemfontein Celtic, have refused to confirm if they would recall Nyasa Big Bullets forward Chiukepo Msowoya for trials this month. Msowoya underwent trials at Celtic last year and he was told that he would be recalled when the transfer window opens in June. Now with the window open, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26633","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\/26633","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=26633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26636,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26633\/revisions\/26636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}