{"id":39100,"date":"2017-01-17T09:10:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T07:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=39100"},"modified":"2017-01-17T09:10:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T07:10:17","slug":"chitipa-united-expect-strikers-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/01\/17\/chitipa-united-expect-strikers-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Chitipa United expect striker\u2019s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-promoted TNM Super League side, Chitipa United, have admitted that they were likely to lose their top striker, Abel Mwakilama, to a foreign team.<\/p>\n<p>The Under-20 striker is on the wanted-list of local and foreign clubs such as Mpumalanga Black Aces in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Chitipa Coach, Robert Mzinza, who is also Mwakilama\u2019s manager, on Monday said the player will likely attend trials at Aces this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are making his travel arrangements with the help of the football authorities. We would have loved to keep him but since it is a foreign team that is interested in him, we cannot stand in his way,\u201d Mzinza said.<\/p>\n<p>Other Super League teams have also reportedly shown interest in the Simama Premier Division top scorer, who can hold up play well upfront and can take on defenders.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mwakilama needs more aggression to challenge tough defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Mwakilama was part of the Malawi Under-20 National Football Team that participated in the 2016 Cosafa Youth Championship held in South Africa last month.<\/p>\n<p>Other Under-20 players such as Peter Banda and Nickson Nyasulu are also in demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-promoted TNM Super League side, Chitipa United, have admitted that they were likely to lose their top striker, Abel Mwakilama, to a foreign team. The Under-20 striker is on the wanted-list of local and foreign clubs such as Mpumalanga Black Aces in South Africa. Chitipa Coach, Robert Mzinza, who is also Mwakilama\u2019s manager, on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39100","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\/39100","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=39100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39108,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39100\/revisions\/39108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}