{"id":51841,"date":"2017-08-16T08:58:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=51841"},"modified":"2017-08-16T08:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:58:35","slug":"handball-coaches-drilled-in-lilongwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/08\/16\/handball-coaches-drilled-in-lilongwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Handball coaches drilled in Lilongwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 handball coaches are undergoing an International Handball Federation (IHF) C-Licence coaching course in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic Solidarity has sponsored the course\u2014running from August 14 to 24\u2014through Malawi Olympic Committee (Moc).<\/p>\n<p>Germany-based IHF instructor Wolfgang Lowak is drilling 14 male and six female coaches. The coaches completed Level One course in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Lowak said he was impressed with the coaches\u2019 hard work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my second time to come to Malawi and I have noted that the sport is improving in the country. My aim is to take Malawi handball to the next level by improving the standards of coaches,\u201d Lowak said.<\/p>\n<p>Moc Treasurer, Henry Sakala, urged the participants to take the course seriously and contribute to the sport\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi Handball Association Vice Chairperson, Macwell Msokwa, said the association wants to introduce a handball league soon.<\/p>\n<p>Successful participants from the course will introduce teams in their respective places and identify players for the national team earmarked for IHF Zone V1 Games.<\/p>\n<p>Blackson Malamula and Sam Msuku are Malawi\u2019s qualified handball coaches so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 handball coaches are undergoing an International Handball Federation (IHF) C-Licence coaching course in Lilongwe. Olympic Solidarity has sponsored the course\u2014running from August 14 to 24\u2014through Malawi Olympic Committee (Moc). Germany-based IHF instructor Wolfgang Lowak is drilling 14 male and six female coaches. The coaches completed Level One course in 2015. Lowak said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51841","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\/51841","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=51841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51845,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51841\/revisions\/51845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}