{"id":26766,"date":"2016-06-24T10:26:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T08:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=26766"},"modified":"2016-06-24T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T08:26:53","slug":"chigoli-academy-wins-u-14-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/06\/24\/chigoli-academy-wins-u-14-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chigoli Academy wins U-14 trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chigoli Academy of Lilongwe celebrated its first anniversary in style after its Under-12 and- 14 teams won a tri-team football tournament after beating their Mafco counterparts in Salima on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chigoli Under-12 team lost to Likumbo Academy, but left as champions having beaten Mafco 3-0. Mafco also beat Likumbo Academy 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the Lilongwe academy said it was targeting the development of 1,000 young players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChigoli is putting in place a number of developments to be announced over the coming weeks that will help build the future towards future Malawian footballers,\u201d reads the academy\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChigoli continues its belief that developing the next generation of young players is the only solution for creating a better future for Malawian football. There is no quick fix in football. Belgium\u2019s current crop of stars came through a development shift, which focused on children that began back in 2001.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lilongwe academy, through community football tournaments, wants to develop an Under-10 squad with a view to graduate into Under-12 and Under-14.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Chigoli has a 28-player squad selected from Under-12 community tournaments involving 2000 players across Lilongwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chigoli Academy of Lilongwe celebrated its first anniversary in style after its Under-12 and- 14 teams won a tri-team football tournament after beating their Mafco counterparts in Salima on Tuesday. Chigoli Under-12 team lost to Likumbo Academy, but left as champions having beaten Mafco 3-0. Mafco also beat Likumbo Academy 2-0. In a press release, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26766","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\/26766","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=26766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26772,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26766\/revisions\/26772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}