{"id":57009,"date":"2017-12-01T11:45:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T09:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=57009"},"modified":"2017-12-01T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T09:45:26","slug":"chitipa-united-eye-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/12\/01\/chitipa-united-eye-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chitipa United eye academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>M<\/strong>onths after donating a bus to Chitipa United, the team\u2019s sponsor, Clever Mpoha, reportedly wants to build the relegation-bound TNM Super League side an academy.<\/p>\n<p>Chitipa General Secretary, Marshall Mwenechanya, said the Zambia-based Malawian wants to transform the team, adding that their Executive Committee has since approached Chitipa District Council over the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need [a piece of] land of approximately 40 hectares, and we have made a move on that. The only delay is that the District Commissioner has been posted elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is remaining is to engage her successor on the matter. We are planning to have players from under-15 and above for both sexes,\u201d Mwenechanya said.<\/p>\n<p>Chitipa assistant Coach, Robert Mzinza, said the academy would make the team stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran soccer analyst, Charles Nyirenda, said the establishment of the academy would be a good idea, but sustainability could be a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months after donating a bus to Chitipa United, the team\u2019s sponsor, Clever Mpoha, reportedly wants to build the relegation-bound TNM Super League side an academy. Chitipa General Secretary, Marshall Mwenechanya, said the Zambia-based Malawian wants to transform the team, adding that their Executive Committee has since approached Chitipa District Council over the project. \u201cWe need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57009","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\/57009","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=57009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57012,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57009\/revisions\/57012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}