Malawi national netball team and Tigresses\u2019 all-rounder, Loreen Ngwira, has agreed to join United Kingdom (UK) netball team, Northumbria, on a season-long deal.
\n\u201cWe would like to welcome Malawi Queens\u2019 shooter-defender Loreen Ngwira to the squad in replacement of injured Tuaine Keenan,\u201d Northumbria tweeted on Tuesday.
\nNgwira\u2019s English agent, Natalie Swift, said she did not have more details on the player\u2019s transfer.
\nNgwira was not readily available for her comment.
\nTigresses Team Manager, Helene Mpinganjira-Tasosa, said they were surprised to learn that Northumbria had announced Ngwira\u2019s signing before the two parties could reach an agreement.
\n\u201cWe have just seen the news on twitter but the club is yet to contact us. They haven\u2019t made any offer. We won\u2019t comment much because they have been talking directly to the player,\u201d Mpinganjira- Tasosa said.
\nNetball Association of Malawi General Secretary, Carol Bapu, said they also learnt about Ngwira\u2019s transfer through twitter.
\n\u201cWe just hope that they will follow transfer procedures. Nevertheless, the deal is good for the nation because the exposure she will gain will add value to Malawi national netball team,\u201d she said.
\nNorthumbria is the Netball Superleague franchise of Northumbria University, and is the only Superleague netball team in the North East.
\nNorthumbria compete in the 10-team top-flight\u2019 tier of UK netball.
\nNgwira has followed in the footsteps of compatriots, Mwawi Kumwenda, who plays for Melbourne Vixens in Australia and Joyce Mvula of Manchester Thunder in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Malawi national netball team and Tigresses\u2019 all-rounder, Loreen Ngwira, has agreed to join United Kingdom (UK) netball team, Northumbria, on a season-long deal. \u201cWe would like to welcome Malawi Queens\u2019 shooter-defender Loreen Ngwira to the squad in replacement of injured Tuaine Keenan,\u201d Northumbria tweeted on Tuesday. Ngwira\u2019s English agent, Natalie Swift, said she did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59247","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\/59247","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=59247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59261,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59247\/revisions\/59261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}