{"id":46006,"date":"2017-05-09T09:53:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T07:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=46006"},"modified":"2017-05-09T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T07:53:22","slug":"franco-ndawa-upbeat-despite-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/05\/09\/franco-ndawa-upbeat-despite-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Franco Ndawa upbeat despite loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Sporting Club Coach, Franco Ndawa, is optimistic of a good season at the Lilongwe-based club despite suffering a home 1-0 defeat against Mafco FC on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In a post-match interview, Ndawa said the team would soon be a force to reckon with in the TNM Super League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am satisfied with the performance of the players. We did well but Mafco got the much needed result. I am sure the team will do well,\u201d Ndawa said.<\/p>\n<p>Ndawa has inherited a squad from Epac and Civo United after the two teams merged following the Office of the President and Cabinet\u2019s (OPC) acquisition of the former.<\/p>\n<p>OPC dumped Civo to sponsor Epac.<\/p>\n<p>Mafco Coach, Temwa Msuku, whose ultimate goal this season is to win the league and a cup, said it was good to start the season on a high.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough game because we played against a good side but we were better,\u201d Msuku said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Sporting Club Coach, Franco Ndawa, is optimistic of a good season at the Lilongwe-based club despite suffering a home 1-0 defeat against Mafco FC on Sunday. In a post-match interview, Ndawa said the team would soon be a force to reckon with in the TNM Super League. \u201cI am satisfied with the performance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46006","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\/46006","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=46006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46007,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46006\/revisions\/46007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}