{"id":47479,"date":"2017-05-31T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=47479"},"modified":"2017-05-31T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T07:25:12","slug":"joyce-mvula-to-join-the-queens-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/05\/31\/joyce-mvula-to-join-the-queens-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Mvula to join the Queens in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Thunder shooter Joyce Mvula is scheduled to join Malawi Netball Queens\u2019 squad in Uganda on June 21.<\/p>\n<p>Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) General Secretary, Carol Bapu, said they were relieved that Thunder had agreed to release the former Blue Eagles Sisters shooter for the Africa Netball Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Malawi Queens are expected to leave the country on June 18 and she will link up with her colleagues on June 21 before the start of the championship on June 24,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mvula\u2019s availability will boost the Queens following the absence of Mwawi Kumwenda who plies her trade with Melbourne Vixens in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Tigresses shooter Sindie Simtowe-Msowoya has also been ruled out as she is reportedly on a maternity break.<\/p>\n<p>Bapu added that Nam was worried with the fitness level of locally based players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why we called for an early camp so that we should be on the safe side. As for Joyce, she has been active and that is what we needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the coaches will have a selection headache because all the players are impressive. They are fighting hard to make it into the team,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Thunder shooter Joyce Mvula is scheduled to join Malawi Netball Queens\u2019 squad in Uganda on June 21. Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) General Secretary, Carol Bapu, said they were relieved that Thunder had agreed to release the former Blue Eagles Sisters shooter for the Africa Netball Championship. \u201cThe Malawi Queens are expected to leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47479","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\/47479","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=47479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47483,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47479\/revisions\/47483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}