{"id":30629,"date":"2016-08-25T11:16:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T09:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=30629"},"modified":"2016-08-25T11:16:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T09:16:46","slug":"flames-regroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/08\/25\/flames-regroup\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames regroup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi National Football Team, the Flames, regrouped in Blantyre on Monday in preparation for next week\u2019s 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon qualifier against Swaziland.<\/p>\n<p>All 19 home-based players reported at Mpira Village in Chiwembe Township ahead of the September 4 match at Kamuzu Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Moyale Barracks FC striker Gastin Simkonda, Be Forward Wanderers goalkeeper, Richard Chipuwa and Silver Strikers\u2019 defender Lucky Malata are the notable players making a comeback to the squad following months of absence.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign-based players such as Robert Ng\u2019ambi, Limbikani Mzava and John Banda will join the team from next Monday, www.fam.mw reported yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Under caretaker coach, Nsanzurwimo Ramadhan, the Flames are looking for their first win in Group L. Malawi has two points from five games. Zimbabwe already qualified from the group.<\/p>\n<p>Swaziland coach, Harris Bulungu, told <em>The Daily Times <\/em>in a telephone interview on Monday that he was yet to get a clear picture of the preparations as they have just regrouped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi National Football Team, the Flames, regrouped in Blantyre on Monday in preparation for next week\u2019s 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon qualifier against Swaziland. All 19 home-based players reported at Mpira Village in Chiwembe Township ahead of the September 4 match at Kamuzu Stadium. Moyale Barracks FC striker Gastin Simkonda, Be Forward Wanderers goalkeeper, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30629","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\/30629","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=30629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30634,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629\/revisions\/30634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}