{"id":48422,"date":"2017-06-14T09:55:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T07:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=48422"},"modified":"2017-06-14T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T07:55:47","slug":"football-returns-to-mdc-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/06\/14\/football-returns-to-mdc-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Football returns to MDC Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After many years, top-flight football is expected to return to MDC Stadium in Blantyre on Saturday, albeit by default.<\/p>\n<p>The Chilomoni Township facility will host a TNM Super League first round game between Azam Tigers and Blantyre United.<\/p>\n<p>Super League of Malawi (Sulom) Fixtures Secretary, Patrick Chisale, Tuesday announced that Kalulu Stadium, which was supposed to host the match, has been booked for other activities.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is unclear if the match marks the opening of the facility to more high-profile games.<\/p>\n<p>Football Association of Malawi General Secretary, Alfred Gunda, whose association owns the facility, hinted last month that the stadium might be open to competitive games.<\/p>\n<p>The stadium was, until last season, home to Surestream Academy which closed shop. The academy was the genesis of Premier Bet Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>The then owners were reluctant to accommodate high-profile games at the stadium in fear of vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the facility was the hunting ground for MDC United, now defunct. The availability of the stadium could offer a glimmer of home to Southern Region match-starved teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many years, top-flight football is expected to return to MDC Stadium in Blantyre on Saturday, albeit by default. The Chilomoni Township facility will host a TNM Super League first round game between Azam Tigers and Blantyre United. Super League of Malawi (Sulom) Fixtures Secretary, Patrick Chisale, Tuesday announced that Kalulu Stadium, which was supposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48422","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\/48422","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=48422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48425,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48422\/revisions\/48425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}