{"id":51579,"date":"2017-08-11T08:03:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T06:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=51579"},"modified":"2017-08-11T08:03:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T06:03:25","slug":"massa-verifies-players-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/08\/11\/massa-verifies-players-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa verifies players\u2019 ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Schools Sports Association (Massa) has completed verifying players\u2019 ages ahead of the Copa Coca- Cola national finals at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe from August 18 to 19.<\/p>\n<p>Massa General Secretary, Blackson Malamula, said the verification exercise was completed yesterday with players certified as under-15s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have gone to all educational divisions, with the South East being the last. Most divisions are faring well. Divisional chairpersons are doing a great job and they have made us happy,\u201d Malamula said.<\/p>\n<p>He said Massa is very strict on age-cheating, hence the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the right time for us to teach our young players the right way of doing things. They should know that there is no short cut to success. We are teaching them to tell the truth each time they are asked about their ages,\u201d Malamula said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the age-verification has also helped Massa appreciate teams\u2019 preparations for the national finals.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s six educational divisions have assembled select teams for the finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Schools Sports Association (Massa) has completed verifying players\u2019 ages ahead of the Copa Coca- Cola national finals at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe from August 18 to 19. Massa General Secretary, Blackson Malamula, said the verification exercise was completed yesterday with players certified as under-15s. \u201cWe have gone to all educational divisions, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51579","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\/51579","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=51579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51581,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579\/revisions\/51581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}