The inaugural Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa) Women\u2019s Football Championship has been shifted from this month to September 11 to 24 in Kampala, Uganda.<\/p>\n
Malawi Women\u2019s National Football Team hope to participate in the regional competition after sending a request to Cecafa secretariat.<\/p>\n
Cecafa was meeting yesterday in Uganda to decide on Malawi\u2019s request.<\/p>\n
National Women\u2019s Football Association (NWFA) Chairperson, Severia Chalira, on Wednesday said her association was keeping fingers crossed on the request.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are just waiting for confirmation. We are ready to start preparations anytime. Funds are available for the competition,\u201d she said on the sidelines of Fifa Women\u2019s Football Administration course in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n
According to New Times <\/em>of Rwanda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Uganda have confirmed participation.<\/p>\n Eritrea, Djibouti, Zanzibar and Somalia are yet to confirm their participation. Namibia, Malawi and Zimbabwe have applied for guests spots.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the two-day women\u2019s football administration course was concluded on Wednesday in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n Over 20 participants from various clubs in the region honed their skills in football administration.<\/p>\n Fam Vice-President, James Mwenda, said the course would contribute to the development of the game.<\/p>\n \u201cMost of the sports administrators had not attended formal training and we believe that after the course, we will have qualified administrators,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The inaugural Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa) Women\u2019s Football Championship has been shifted from this month to September 11 to 24 in Kampala, Uganda. Malawi Women\u2019s National Football Team hope to participate in the regional competition after sending a request to Cecafa secretariat. Cecafa was meeting yesterday in Uganda to decide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30258","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\/30258","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=30258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30266,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258\/revisions\/30266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}