{"id":47931,"date":"2017-06-07T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T07:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=47931"},"modified":"2017-06-07T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T07:22:42","slug":"ronny-van-geneugden-claims-full-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/06\/07\/ronny-van-geneugden-claims-full-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronny Van Geneugden claims full control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi National Football Team Coach, Ronny Van Geneugden, Tuesday claimed that he and his backroom staff are in total control of player selection for the team, denying reports of external influence.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press briefing held at Bingu National Stadium, the Belgian said he is in full control of all issues to do with player selection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not know anything about what used to happen before. I only can speak about what is happening now. Selection of players is the responsibility of the panel that I head together with the Technical Director (John Kaputa),\u201d Geneugden said.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian then went on to dodge questions about the team\u2019s captain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sorry guys. It is not possible to say anything about the captain now but it will be one of the players in camp,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>This means the future of Mzava as captain is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames host Comoros in the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers at Bingu National Stadium this Saturday in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Since Geneugden took over as Flames coach, the team has played three games without a win let alone a goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi National Football Team Coach, Ronny Van Geneugden, Tuesday claimed that he and his backroom staff are in total control of player selection for the team, denying reports of external influence. Speaking at a press briefing held at Bingu National Stadium, the Belgian said he is in full control of all issues to do with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47931","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\/47931","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=47931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47936,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47931\/revisions\/47936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}