{"id":28069,"date":"2016-07-15T10:13:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T08:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=28069"},"modified":"2016-07-15T10:13:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T08:13:25","slug":"south-africa-team-courts-joseph-kamwendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/07\/15\/south-africa-team-courts-joseph-kamwendo\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa team courts Joseph Kamwendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National team seasoned midfielder, Joseph Kamwendo, might make a sensation return to South Africa Absa Premier Soccer League (PSL) following interest from newly-promoted Highlands Park.<\/p>\n<p>South African online football magazine, Soccer Laduma, has reported that Highlands coach, Alan Freese, was impressed with the performance of the Mozambique-based player at the recent Cosafa Castle Cup in Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what the owner of the team in Mozambique said, the newly- promoted Highlands Park are interested in Shakira\u2019s services,\u201d the source told Soccer Laduma about the Liga Desportivo Maputo player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will all depend on what they want and if Highlands Park will afford it. They are looking for $40,000 [K28 million] and that is what they think he deserves but he could be moving to the PSL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kamwendo has 54 PSL appearances to his name, having played for Vasco Da Gama and Orlando Pirates previously.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to Liga Desportivo management confirmed to <em>The Daily Times <\/em>yesterday about Highlands\u2019 interest in the player. Tanzanian side, Azam FC, have also been eyeing Kamwendo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the team owner [Rafik Sidat] is unlikely to sell him as he wants him to play this season. Of course, if there is a big offer, they will likely sell him,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The former Be Forward Wanderers and Zimbabwe\u2019s Caps United star confirmed that while he is viewed as aged in Malawi football circles, there are many potential suitors for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are talking to my bosses. So let us wait and see what the South African club will agree with my team here. I feel like a 17-year-old. To me age is just but a number. It was not easy to play at TP Mazembe, but the experience I got there has been handy to me,\u201d Kamwendo explained in a telephone interview from Maputo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National team seasoned midfielder, Joseph Kamwendo, might make a sensation return to South Africa Absa Premier Soccer League (PSL) following interest from newly-promoted Highlands Park. South African online football magazine, Soccer Laduma, has reported that Highlands coach, Alan Freese, was impressed with the performance of the Mozambique-based player at the recent Cosafa Castle Cup in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28069","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\/28069","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=28069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28074,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28069\/revisions\/28074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}