{"id":28379,"date":"2016-07-20T12:19:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T10:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=28379"},"modified":"2016-07-20T12:19:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T10:19:34","slug":"francis-mlimbika-back-in-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/07\/20\/francis-mlimbika-back-in-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Mlimbika back in training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be Forward Wanderers heaved a sigh of relief Tuesday when their influential captain Francis Mlimbika returned to training on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>There were fears that the left-back, who limped off after scoring in the 4-0 trouncing of Wizards FC at Kamuzu Stadium on Sunday, would be unavailable for Saturday\u2019s TNM Super League game against Blue Eagles at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mlimbika Tuesday said doctors gave him the all-clear to return to training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just a knock after I landed awkwardly on my right. I am available for selection,\u201d said the Flames defender, who was also sidelined for a month earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>In the camp of rivals Nyasa Big Bullets, midfielders, Mike Mkwate and Henry Kabichi, are also injury-doubts having missed Saturday\u2019s Presidential Cup final against Moyale Barracks at Civo Stadium in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Kabichi, who can play virtually anywhere in the middle of the park, confirmed that he was unavailable for action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI twisted my ankle while training last Thursday and I will be out for 15 days,\u201d Kabichi said.<\/p>\n<p>Bullets defender John Lanjesi is also on a lengthy injury sideline alongside out-of-contract goalkeeper Vincent Gona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be Forward Wanderers heaved a sigh of relief Tuesday when their influential captain Francis Mlimbika returned to training on Tuesday. There were fears that the left-back, who limped off after scoring in the 4-0 trouncing of Wizards FC at Kamuzu Stadium on Sunday, would be unavailable for Saturday\u2019s TNM Super League game against Blue Eagles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28379","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\/28379","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=28379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28384,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28379\/revisions\/28384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}