Malawi Under-17 National Football Team on Tuesday booked a Cosafa Youth Cup semi-final berth against South Africa after beating Kenya 5-0 in Port Louis, Mauritius.<\/p>\n
The Junior Flames needed a draw to reach the semifinals, but showed no mercy on the Kenyans with the convincing victory.<\/p>\n
Goals from Frank Chizuze, Francisco Madinga and Peter Banda\u2019s hat-trick ensured the Junior Flames\u2019 progression as Group B runners-up with six points, three behind Zambia, who defeated Madagascar 3-0 on the same day.<\/p>\n
Chizuze grabbed the opener after 19 minutes before Banda increased the lead in the 52nd and 59th minutes. Madinga added the fourth after 64 minutes before Banda completed his hat-trick on the stroke of full time.<\/p>\n
The Junior Flames started their campaign with a 2-1 victory over Madagascar on Friday, before being thrashed 3-0 by Zambia on Sunday.<\/p>\n
This is the biggest victory recorded by any team at the Cosafa Cup this year.<\/p>\n
In an interview from Mauritius, Malawi coach, Derklerk Msakakuona, said his young troops were slowly gaining confidence on the international stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the players are still young, but they have a good fighting spirit. We dominated the game and the players played according to game- plan,\u201d Msakakuona said.<\/p>\n
Malawi won the competition in 2001 as hosts at Kamuzu Stadium.<\/p>\n
Malawi line-up<\/strong>: Hastings Banda, Moses Chipanda Jnr, Henry Chiwaya, Hadji Wali (captain), Innocent Shema, Chimango Kalinga, Banda, Lexpart Sumaili, Madinga,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malawi Under-17 National Football Team on Tuesday booked a Cosafa Youth Cup semi-final berth against South Africa after beating Kenya 5-0 in Port Louis, Mauritius. The Junior Flames needed a draw to reach the semifinals, but showed no mercy on the Kenyans with the convincing victory. Goals from Frank Chizuze, Francisco Madinga and Peter Banda\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28911","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\/28911","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=28911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28916,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28911\/revisions\/28916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}