{"id":49435,"date":"2017-06-30T09:59:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T07:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=49435"},"modified":"2017-06-30T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T07:59:53","slug":"ian-chinyama-out-for-6-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/06\/30\/ian-chinyama-out-for-6-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Chinyama out for 6 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi national football team left back, Ian Chinyama, will be out of action for six weeks after undergoing a successful operation on Wednesday at Fern Crest Hospital in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>On his debut on Tuesday, the Premier Bet Wizards\u2019 defender broke his facial bones after colliding with a striker for Mauritius at the ongoing Cosafa Castle Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Mlimbika replaced Chinyama when Malawi drew 0-0 against Mauritius at Royal Bafokeng Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames Team Manager, James Sangala, said Chinyama was complaining of pain around his right eye, adding that scans revealed that he had three fractures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been advised that he should rest for at least six weeks. It is a blow to both the nation and the player. However, we are confident that he will bounce back soon and strongly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chinyama was equally optimistic of a quick recovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am now feeling better and I am sure that I will be back in action soon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chinyama was given a rare start on Tuesday after the Flames Coach, Ronny van Geneudgen, reshuffled his squad following Malawi\u2019s dismal start, losing 2-0 to Tanzania on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi national football team left back, Ian Chinyama, will be out of action for six weeks after undergoing a successful operation on Wednesday at Fern Crest Hospital in South Africa. On his debut on Tuesday, the Premier Bet Wizards\u2019 defender broke his facial bones after colliding with a striker for Mauritius at the ongoing Cosafa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49435","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\/49435","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=49435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49438,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49435\/revisions\/49438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}