{"id":52205,"date":"2017-08-23T08:38:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T06:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=52205"},"modified":"2017-08-23T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T06:38:32","slug":"tigresses-fume-over-lauren-ngwira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/08\/23\/tigresses-fume-over-lauren-ngwira\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigresses fume over Lauren Ngwira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T<\/strong>igresses have lodged a complaint to Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) over reports linking their star player, Lauren Ngwira, to top English netball side, Hertfordshire Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>Ngwira, alongside compatriot Sharo Kaiche of Thunder Queens, have been listed as Mavericks\u2019 players to feature in the Fast5 All- Star Tournament on September 23 in London.<\/p>\n<p>The pair has been linked with Mavericks following local netball icon Mary Waya\u2019s visit to England.<\/p>\n<p>The former Malawi National Netball Team shooter has been hired as Mavericks\u2019 Shooters\u2019 Coach.<\/p>\n<p>Tigresses\u2019 Team Manager, Helene Mpinganjira-Tasosa, said they lodged the complaint because they felt there was something sinister behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t think that a team as professional as Mavericks can take a bold move to announce that they will feature our player [Ngwira] as part of their All-Star [squad] without communication with the association,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mpinganjira-Tasosa said Tigresses were supposed to be involved in the discussion as per article 37.6 of Nam constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The article states that a parent club shall authorise Nam to release a player to another team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case, we are the ones that are supposed to communicate to Nam to release the player,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Nam General Secretary, Carol Bapu, confirmed receiving a complaint from Nam but reserved her comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t say much because we are equally in the dark,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tigresses have lodged a complaint to Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) over reports linking their star player, Lauren Ngwira, to top English netball side, Hertfordshire Mavericks. Ngwira, alongside compatriot Sharo Kaiche of Thunder Queens, have been listed as Mavericks\u2019 players to feature in the Fast5 All- Star Tournament on September 23 in London. The pair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52205","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\/52205","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=52205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52208,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52205\/revisions\/52208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}