National Football Coaches Association has urged Football Association of Malawi (Fam) to take advantage of the government\u2019s decision against recruiting an expatriate coach for the Flames and reflect on the association\u2019s continued sidelining of local coaches.<\/p>\n
Fam postponed the recruitment process of the coach after the government admitted that it had no adequate funding for such an exercise.<\/p>\n
Dingani Nhlane, Treasurer for the coaches\u2019 body, said they would meet Fam to question its appetite for foreign coaches.<\/p>\n
\u201cFam has to sit down to reconsider this decision once and for all because our coaches have always been proving that they have the potential. For example, Kinnah Phiri took Malawi to 2010 Africa Cup of Nations finals. All the foreign coaches we have recruited in recent times failed to achieve that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had local coaches such as Reuben Malola and Henry Moyo [deceased]. They tried to do their best. This simply shows that local coaches can do better. They just need enough resources to do their job diligently,\u201d Nhlane said.<\/p>\n
Nhlane\u2019s remarks are in contrast to what the coaches association\u2019s Chairperson, Stuart Mbolembole, told The Daily Times <\/em>a fortnight ago that his body was behind the Fam\u2019s idea.<\/p>\n Mbolembole, who is also Fam\u2019s part-time employee in his capacity as Malawi Women\u2019s Football Team Coach, said the proposal for hiring an expatriate coach should not be viewed negatively as the country needs someone to instill in local football a distinct playing philosophy.<\/p>\n Fam General Secretary, Alfred Gunda on the other hand, insisted that the current huge technical gaps in the Flames \u201ccan only be addressed through the recruitment of a well-trained and highly experienced expatriate coach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" National Football Coaches Association has urged Football Association of Malawi (Fam) to take advantage of the government\u2019s decision against recruiting an expatriate coach for the Flames and reflect on the association\u2019s continued sidelining of local coaches. Fam postponed the recruitment process of the coach after the government admitted that it had no adequate funding for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42431","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\/42431","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=42431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42435,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42431\/revisions\/42435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}