{"id":53154,"date":"2017-09-08T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T06:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=53154"},"modified":"2017-09-08T08:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T06:35:05","slug":"womens-soccer-team-play-mens-outfits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/womens-soccer-team-play-mens-outfits\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s soccer team play men\u2019s outfits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Women\u2019s National Football Team has opted to play strength testing games against local men\u2019s developmental sides ahead of the Cosafa Women\u2019s Championship scheduled for Zimbabwe from September 13.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s team lost 4-1 to Angaliba in a training match played at Chilomoni Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi Coach, Stuart Mbolembole, said the friendly games with the men\u2019s teams would help the women gain speed and endurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started our preparations a bit late and now we trying to catch up. In the absence of international friendly matches, we feel that the local friendly matches with the men\u2019s teams will help our players to improve their speed and endurance. So far, we have spotted areas which we need to work on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mbolembole added that the technical panel has a hint on what sort of opposition to expect during the championship in Bulawayo where they have been drawn alongside Madagascar, Zimbabwe and Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi is expected to face the hosts on September 13 and Madagascar on September 15. The She-Flames will then meet Zambia on September 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Women\u2019s National Football Team has opted to play strength testing games against local men\u2019s developmental sides ahead of the Cosafa Women\u2019s Championship scheduled for Zimbabwe from September 13. The women\u2019s team lost 4-1 to Angaliba in a training match played at Chilomoni Stadium on Tuesday. Malawi Coach, Stuart Mbolembole, said the friendly games with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53154","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\/53154","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=53154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53158,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53154\/revisions\/53158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}