{"id":50762,"date":"2017-07-24T09:29:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T07:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=50762"},"modified":"2017-07-24T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T07:29:34","slug":"malawi-under-17-eye-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/07\/24\/malawi-under-17-eye-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Under -17 eye semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi under-17 national football team can inch closer to a Cosafa Cup semi-final berth if they beat Zimbabwe Moday, and hope that group A joint leaders and hosts, Mauritius, should lose to Botswana.<\/p>\n<p>The junior Flames go into the clash buoyed by a 2-0 win over Botswana on Saturday whereas Mauritius saw off Zimbabwe 1-0 on the same day to go joint top with three points apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Mauritius take on Botswana in the second match on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, a loss for the hosts and a win for Malawi would leave the junior Flames needing just a draw on Wednesday when meeting the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Despite unconvincing preparations, the junior Flames beat Botswana at the Stade St Francois Xavier, thanks to Chinsinsi Maonga and Tathedwa Willard\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Louis Philibert netted a magnificent free-kick for Mauritius when defeating Zimbabwe. Top two teams from each group will qualify for the semi-finals. Malawi won a bronze medal last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi under-17 national football team can inch closer to a Cosafa Cup semi-final berth if they beat Zimbabwe Moday, and hope that group A joint leaders and hosts, Mauritius, should lose to Botswana. The junior Flames go into the clash buoyed by a 2-0 win over Botswana on Saturday whereas Mauritius saw off Zimbabwe 1-0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50762","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\/50762","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=50762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50767,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50762\/revisions\/50767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}