{"id":34903,"date":"2016-11-04T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T09:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=34903"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T09:35:22","slug":"fam-mum-on-general-secretary-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/11\/04\/fam-mum-on-general-secretary-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fam mum on General Secretary\u2019 successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football Association of Malawi (Fam) has kept under wraps the identity of outgoing General Secretary, Suzgo Nyirenda\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Nyirenda, who has served Fam for 11 years, has secured the post of Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Fam Vice-President, James Mwenda, yesterday declined to confirm if Gunda\u2019s name was proposed during the association\u2019s Executive Committee meeting held in Mzuzu over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot disclose what we discussed. The president [Walter Nyamilandu] is going to release a statement on every detail, ranging from the new Flames\u2019 coach to the General Secretary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sources indicate that the meeting settled for Mzuzu University\u2019s (Mzuni) Registrar responsible for administration, Alfred Gunda, as Nyirenda\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Gunda, in a separate interview, yesterday could neither confirm nor deny the reports linking him to the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also just heard about it. What I can say is that an appointment is an appointment, but it has not reached me yet. Of course, I was present during the Fam Executive Committee meeting, but this is an issue regarding me as an individual, so I cannot discuss it with another person,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While serving as Northern Region Football Association general secretary, Gunda was at the centre of criticism following Mzuni FC\u2019s controversial promotion to the TNM Super League in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football Association of Malawi (Fam) has kept under wraps the identity of outgoing General Secretary, Suzgo Nyirenda\u2019s replacement. Nyirenda, who has served Fam for 11 years, has secured the post of Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) in South Africa. Fam Vice-President, James Mwenda, yesterday declined to confirm if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34903","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\/34903","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=34903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34906,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34903\/revisions\/34906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}