{"id":54990,"date":"2017-10-13T08:51:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T06:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=54990"},"modified":"2017-10-13T08:51:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T06:51:28","slug":"joanna-kachilika-calls-for-new-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/joanna-kachilika-calls-for-new-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Kachilika calls for new ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>M<\/strong>alawi National Netball Team Captain, Joanna Kachilika, has said the Queens must forget last year\u2019s Fast5 Netball World Series\u2019 third-place finish if the team is to do well at this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day competition will run from October 28 at Hisense Arena in Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Kachilika was part of the Queens\u2019 squad that defied odds to finish on third position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year\u2019s finishing line presents our starting point this year. That is now history. We need to have new ambition if we are to be successful this year,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coaches will certainly face selection headache. Every player wants to be in the final team. Currently, we are all fighting tooth and nail to be in the squad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coach, Sam Kanyenda, said the team would play strength- testing matches against male netball teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the absence of international test matches, we have opted for male netball teams, most preferably the <em>Akabawi<\/em>. The male basketball teams\u2019 background will help us improve on our jumping, endurance and speed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi National Netball Team Captain, Joanna Kachilika, has said the Queens must forget last year\u2019s Fast5 Netball World Series\u2019 third-place finish if the team is to do well at this year\u2019s competition. The two-day competition will run from October 28 at Hisense Arena in Melbourne, Australia. Kachilika was part of the Queens\u2019 squad that defied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54990","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\/54990","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=54990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54992,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54990\/revisions\/54992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}