{"id":33872,"date":"2016-10-18T09:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=33872"},"modified":"2016-10-18T09:46:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:46:46","slug":"squad-bloated-yasin-osman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/10\/18\/squad-bloated-yasin-osman\/","title":{"rendered":"Squad bloated\u2014 Yasin Osman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be Forward Wanderers\u2019 Coach, Yasin Osman, has said the Nomads\u2019 squad is too big and needs to be trimmed at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWanderers have many players. It is difficult to manage 30 to 35 players as you tend to focus on the whole group rather than improving each individual, and this leads to lack of motivation,\u201d the veteran mentor said.<\/p>\n<p>Osman said this Monday when asked about his impression of the team, which he took over from sacked Eddingtone Ng\u2019onamo last week.<\/p>\n<p>The coach was in charge when Wanderers defeated, Civo United 2-1 on Saturday before losing by a similar margin to Kamuzu Barracks the following day. Both games were played in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch games were an eye-opener, added Osman,\u201d who insisted that Wanderers have a mathematical chance of winning the championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur supporters need to understand that things will not change overnight. One thing I have noted is that some players are highly committed and some are not committed,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the game against Civo, we dominated and the players were committed but it was different in the next game against Kamuzu Barracks. KB were more physical in their approach and they played long balls, but some players were not committed. Maybe we should be concentrating on those who are committed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be Forward Wanderers\u2019 Coach, Yasin Osman, has said the Nomads\u2019 squad is too big and needs to be trimmed at the end of the season. \u201cWanderers have many players. It is difficult to manage 30 to 35 players as you tend to focus on the whole group rather than improving each individual, and this leads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33872","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\/33872","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=33872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33876,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33872\/revisions\/33876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}