{"id":42022,"date":"2017-03-08T09:39:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T07:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=42022"},"modified":"2017-03-08T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T07:39:58","slug":"nomads-vow-to-win-airtel-top-8-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/03\/08\/nomads-vow-to-win-airtel-top-8-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomads vow to win Airtel top 8 Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be Forward Wanderers Executive Committee Member, Robert Mbedza, has vowed that the Nomads will become the first winners of the Airtel Top 8 Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is now in our blood stream that we are always the first in winning inaugural trophies, and the Airtel Top 8 Cup is no exception. We are determined to win it,\u201d Mbedza said, adding that they will also focus on claiming their first TNM Super League title since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Wanderers General Secretary, Mike Butao, added that the team would like to build on their performance of last season when they won Carlsberg Cup, Fisd Challenge Cup and Luso TV Bus Ipite Bonanza.<\/p>\n<p>Kamuzu Barracks Coach, Billy Phambala, said his charges were also determined to win the cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is a team that has already won the cup on paper, I am saying congratulations. The fact is that my team is leaving no stone unturned in order to clinch the cup,\u201d Phambala said.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Strikers Team Manager, Francis Songo, said they were targeting all cups next season.<\/p>\n<p>The cup, whose prize money is K15 million, will feature Kamuzu Barracks, Nyasa Big Bullets, Silver Strikers, Blue Eagles, Mafco, Be Forward Wanderers, Moyale Barracks and Azam Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be Forward Wanderers Executive Committee Member, Robert Mbedza, has vowed that the Nomads will become the first winners of the Airtel Top 8 Cup. \u201cIt is now in our blood stream that we are always the first in winning inaugural trophies, and the Airtel Top 8 Cup is no exception. We are determined to win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42022","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\/42022","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=42022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42025,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42022\/revisions\/42025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}