{"id":28461,"date":"2016-07-21T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T10:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=28461"},"modified":"2016-07-21T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T10:25:05","slug":"u-17-warned-on-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/07\/21\/u-17-warned-on-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"U-17 warned on pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Seven<\/strong> years ago, Malawi Under-17 National Football Team players threw the sport and the nation into disrepute when reports emerged that they were watching pornography during a World Youth Championship in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The Under-17 team was eventually eliminated from the competition after failing to win a single game.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Cosafa Youth Championship kicking-off in Mauritius tomorrow, the current squad received a timely caution before their departure on Wednesay.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Region Youth Football Association Chairperson, Duncan Jumbe, who has been monitoring the team\u2019s progress, paid the squad a courtesy call on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are our ambassadors. You are carrying our hopes and flag. The idea is for you to go, learn and enjoy your game. The Football Association of Malawi (Fam) has not given you any target because they want to develop you, but that does not mean that you should approach the game casually. You need to compete without pressure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Jumbe said major stakeholders, including Fam, National Youth Football Association and Malawi Schools Sports Association (Massa) has confidence in the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know that to get here, you all broke sweat. You underwent a rigorous age-screening exercise and trials. You are within the required age-bracket and we don\u2019t want you to misbehave. You are not irresponsible adults who watch pornographic materials, so behave\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Under-17 Team Manager, Mike Banda, a former striker for University of Malawi FC and Silver Strikers, said the side had promising players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t been given any target and this eases the pressure on the team. We will go there and showcase our skill. If they underrate us, we will shock them because we are eager to take our chances,\u201d he said, while applauding coach Derklerk Msakakuona and his assistant Tione Mhone for building a good side.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s skipper, Hadji Wali of Silver Youth, said their wish was to win the trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven years ago, Malawi Under-17 National Football Team players threw the sport and the nation into disrepute when reports emerged that they were watching pornography during a World Youth Championship in Nigeria. The Under-17 team was eventually eliminated from the competition after failing to win a single game. Ahead of the Cosafa Youth Championship kicking-off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28461","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\/28461","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=28461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28467,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28461\/revisions\/28467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}