{"id":53396,"date":"2017-09-13T08:06:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T06:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=53396"},"modified":"2017-09-13T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T06:14:27","slug":"dalitso-sailesi-makes-dynamos-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/09\/13\/dalitso-sailesi-makes-dynamos-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalitso Sailesi makes Dynamos debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>M<\/strong>alawi National Football Team attacking midfielder Dalitso Sailesi finally tasted Zambia Super League action on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The former Nyasa Big Bullets player was introduced from the bench at half-time when his new team, Lusaka Dynamos, came from behind to beat Konkola Blades 2-1 at Heroes National Stadium in Lusaka.<\/p>\n<p>Sailesi Tuesday said Dynamos Coach, Patrick Phiri, featured him in the playing squad upon arrival from national duty in Morocco on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The former Blantyre United winger was introduced when Dynamos were trailing 1-0 after Captain, Cretass Chama, was shown a red card.<\/p>\n<p>The red card forced Phiri to change the game-plan, hence Sailesi\u2019s introduction. Sailesi said he was happy to play on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first place, I was worried that the coach was introducing me when the team was a goal down and that he would expect a lot from me. However, we ended up winning the game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI replaced Emmanuel Zelele. It was a tough match and I did all I could to help our strikers Chris Mugalu and Brian Chewe to score. I will keep on fighting to break into the first XI. I know it would not be easy as the team has the cream of players from several countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The victory took Sailesi\u2019s side to position four on the log table with 45 points from 26 matches, two points behind leaders, Power Dynamos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi National Football Team attacking midfielder Dalitso Sailesi finally tasted Zambia Super League action on Sunday. The former Nyasa Big Bullets player was introduced from the bench at half-time when his new team, Lusaka Dynamos, came from behind to beat Konkola Blades 2-1 at Heroes National Stadium in Lusaka. Sailesi Tuesday said Dynamos Coach, Patrick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53396","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\/53396","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=53396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53400,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53396\/revisions\/53400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}