{"id":27642,"date":"2016-07-08T11:07:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T09:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=27642"},"modified":"2016-07-08T11:07:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T09:07:29","slug":"copa-coca-cola-justifies-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/07\/08\/copa-coca-cola-justifies-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Copa Coca- Cola justifies break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the countdown to the national finals of Copa Coca-Cola Under-15 Schools\u2019 Tournament continues, the sponsor has expressed optimism that teams will return stronger.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament has been on a break for two months. The national finals are scheduled for this end of the month, when six education divisional sides will battle it out.<\/p>\n<p>Coca-Cola Senior Brands Manager, Titha Mbilizi, said the benefits of the break were two-fold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirstly, we wanted to give players ample time to study for examinations. The break also helped the teams to fine-tune ahead of the finals. We are confident that the break will serve its purpose,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, two Copa Coca-Cola football products, Sungani Chiwaya and Stain Mwale, returned home over the weekend having undergone one-week special camp training in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the countdown to the national finals of Copa Coca-Cola Under-15 Schools\u2019 Tournament continues, the sponsor has expressed optimism that teams will return stronger. The tournament has been on a break for two months. The national finals are scheduled for this end of the month, when six education divisional sides will battle it out. Coca-Cola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27642","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\/27642","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=27642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27646,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27642\/revisions\/27646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}