Football Association of Malawi (Fam) President, Walter Nyamilandu, has challenged Malawi Women\u2019s National Football Team to start winning matches if they are to attract sponsors.<\/p>\n
Nyamilandu was reacting to comments by one of the women\u2019s football officials, David Dube, that Fam\u2019s leadership is failing to uplift women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n
Dube, who is also the owner of Lilongwe-based women\u2019s football club, DD Sunshine, accused Nyamilandu of not living up to the promise he made prior to his re-election in 2015 that he would secure sponsorship for women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n
But Nyamilandu said the national team can market itself through winning.<\/p>\n
Recently, the national team lost 2-3 to their Zambian counterparts in a friendly game played at Nankhaka Ground in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have to start winning matches. Sponsors cannot just come and spend their money on something that will not make a profit. So the best way is to invest in the youths,\u201d Nyamilandu said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could see from the Zambia game that we fielded a very young team, but it managed to score two goals. Although we lost, there were some positives from that match. They just have to keep getting better and better in their next games,\u201d Nyamilandu said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, National Women\u2019s Football Committee Chairperson, Severia Chalira, said the corporate world shuns women\u2019s football because they undermine the game.<\/p>\n
She added that it would be difficult for domestic women\u2019s football to match their male counterparts due to people\u2019s perception.<\/p>\n
\u201cGenerally, when people think of football, they think of men only. So the mindset is that it is a men\u2019s sport which is just being forced on women. That is why I think it will take ages for people to support women\u2019s football,\u201d Chalira explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wish we could have also had a consistent national women\u2019s football league as it is the case with TNM Super League. But I don\u2019t know if this dream will ever come true.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Football Association of Malawi (Fam) President, Walter Nyamilandu, has challenged Malawi Women\u2019s National Football Team to start winning matches if they are to attract sponsors. Nyamilandu was reacting to comments by one of the women\u2019s football officials, David Dube, that Fam\u2019s leadership is failing to uplift women\u2019s football. Dube, who is also the owner of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40953","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=40953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40959,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40953\/revisions\/40959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}