{"id":41645,"date":"2017-03-02T07:56:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T05:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=41645"},"modified":"2017-03-02T07:56:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T05:56:55","slug":"platinum-stars-coach-reveals-pushing-phiri-junior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/03\/02\/platinum-stars-coach-reveals-pushing-phiri-junior\/","title":{"rendered":"Platinum Stars Coach reveals pushing Phiri Junior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Platinum Stars Coach, Cavin Johnson, has revealed asking Flames attacking midfielder, Gerald Phiri Junior, to change his approach to taking freekicks.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation comes in the wake of Phiri Junior\u2019s sterling performance when he scored two goals from freekicks in the team\u2019s 3-0 win of a Premier Soccer League (PSL) game against Bloemfontein Celtic on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson told <em>Kickoff.com <\/em>that he asked Phiri Junior to aim at scoring other than floating the ball for teammates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhiri has been working hard at training, practising freekicks. In other matches, he has been floating them and I told him, just put the ball in the net. He hit the free-kicks and they both went in. Well done to him,\u201d Johnson was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars\u2019 mentor praised Phiri Junior for his outstanding performance that helped Stars snap a five-game winless league run.<\/p>\n<p>Stars also featured veteran Flames midfielder Robert Ng\u2019ambi in Saturday\u2019s match, which involved other Malawians, Celtic\u2019s co-Coach, John Maduka and striker Atusaye Nyondo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Platinum Stars Coach, Cavin Johnson, has revealed asking Flames attacking midfielder, Gerald Phiri Junior, to change his approach to taking freekicks. The revelation comes in the wake of Phiri Junior\u2019s sterling performance when he scored two goals from freekicks in the team\u2019s 3-0 win of a Premier Soccer League (PSL) game against Bloemfontein [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41645","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\/41645","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=41645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41650,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41645\/revisions\/41650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}