{"id":54325,"date":"2017-09-29T10:44:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T08:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=54325"},"modified":"2017-09-29T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T08:44:38","slug":"ronny-van-geneugden-backs-youthful-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/09\/29\/ronny-van-geneugden-backs-youthful-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronny van Geneugden backs youthful players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>M<\/strong>alawi\u2019s Flames Coach, Ronny van Geneugden (RVG), has defended his call-up of inexperienced players into the national team pre-camp training, saying age is irrelevant in his selection policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Coach commented on his inclusion of inexperienced and under-20 players\u2014such as Levison Maganizo, Mark Fodya, Peter Banda, Chimwemwe Idana and Charles Thom\u2014in the camp which wound up Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guys have proven to be good technically. The arrangement was done deliberately to give a chance to the under-20 players to have confidence and gain experience so that next time they graduate into the senior team, we shouldn\u2019t have problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, this will be done now and then. In the next call-ups, we will not mind age or the team a player is playing [for]. [It does not matter] whether [one is] from Division One, Premier Division, Super League, provided they have skills,\u201d the Belgian coach said.<\/p>\n<p>Idana of Nyasa Big Bullets Reserve Thursday said he was happy to be called up into camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe call-up has really given me confidence that I have a good future. Even if I am not taken on board into the senior team, my performance at club level would certainly improve with the new skills which I have acquired here. I will also work hard considering that I stand another chance of being invited to the senior team in future if I maintain the standards,\u201d the midfielder said.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin Young Stars striker, Banda, said the call-up had given him exposure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore teams need my services, but I will be ready next year. This will, therefore, expose me more to the teams so that, by next year, more teams should be chasing after my signature,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames are expected to meet Tanzania in a friendly match next week without key defender Limbikani Mzava, who is injured.<\/p>\n<p>Van Geneugden admitted that the absence of Mzava would affect the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is good that the injury has come when we are playing friendlies. Hopefully, by next March, he would either be fit or we would have groomed other players to replace him. Otherwise, he is a leader and good captain for the team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames are expected to regroup next Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi\u2019s Flames Coach, Ronny van Geneugden (RVG), has defended his call-up of inexperienced players into the national team pre-camp training, saying age is irrelevant in his selection policy. The Coach commented on his inclusion of inexperienced and under-20 players\u2014such as Levison Maganizo, Mark Fodya, Peter Banda, Chimwemwe Idana and Charles Thom\u2014in the camp which wound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54325","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\/54325","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=54325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54326,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54325\/revisions\/54326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}