Experienced midfielder, Robert Ng\u2019ambi, has seen it all in the often cruel jungle of international football, little wonder the Malawian\u2019s South African Absa Premier Soccer League (PSL) club, Platinum Stars, are banking on him.<\/p>\n
Stars are preparing for participation in the 2017 Confederation of African Football (Caf) Confederations Cup, hence Coach Cavin Johnson is counting on his experienced charges, including Vuyo Mere\u201a Ndumiso Mabena\u201a Tinstwalo Tshabalala and Solomon Mathe.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we don\u2019t get what we are looking for on the transfer market\u201a I will still be content with having a number of players like Vuyo Mere and Ng\u2019ambi\u201a who have experienced the tough conditions or travelling and playing on the continent\u201a\u201d Johnson told Sowetan <\/em>newspaper edition of Saturday.<\/p>\n Ng\u2019ambi has vast experience for country and club having been part of Nyasa Big Bullets\u2019 dream team that reached the 2004 Caf Champions League group stages.<\/p>\n The South Africa side begin their campaign against Mozambicans, Uni\u00e3o Desportiva do Songo, on the weekend of February 10.<\/p>\n Johnson said their opponents, whose regulars include Malawians\u2014 goalkeeper Charles Swini and midfielder Frank Banda\u2014could be tricky.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are going to Africa which is not easy if you don\u2019t have the right type of players in the squad\u201a\u201c said Johnson, whose squad includes Flames\u2019 midfielder, Gerald Phiri Junior.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to know exactly what you are doing. You have to give young players a chance to play at that level\u201a but at the same time you must be careful and avoid being embarrassed.\u201d<\/p>\n Stars General Manager, Senzo Mazingisa, said the club will buy quality players within the team\u2019s limited budget.<\/p>\n \u201cWe cannot act like we have got big budgets and it is for that reason we promoted youngsters who were ready to be promoted\u201a\u201c Mazingisa told Sowetan.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had to tighten our budget because the economic environment is clearly not favouring us. I know we are not alone in that boat\u201a anything we do we have to be cognizant of the budget.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Experienced midfielder, Robert Ng\u2019ambi, has seen it all in the often cruel jungle of international football, little wonder the Malawian\u2019s South African Absa Premier Soccer League (PSL) club, Platinum Stars, are banking on him. Stars are preparing for participation in the 2017 Confederation of African Football (Caf) Confederations Cup, hence Coach Cavin Johnson is counting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38674","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\/38674","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=38674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38677,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38674\/revisions\/38677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}