{"id":61244,"date":"2018-02-23T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=61244"},"modified":"2018-02-23T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T07:00:34","slug":"big-bullets-reject-becomes-cornerstone-of-namibia-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/02\/23\/big-bullets-reject-becomes-cornerstone-of-namibia-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bullets reject becomes cornerstone of Namibia champions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discarded Nyasa Big Bullets defender, George Nyirenda, has signed a long-term deal with Namibia\u2019s Premier League champions, United Africa Tigers, as a free agent.<\/p>\n

His Manager, Uchindami Kaira, on Monday confirmed that the dread-locked defender went to Namibia a fortnight ago to try his luck at Tigers, following his release by Bullets.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe laboured in Zimbabwe and made the grade, which made the Namibian side to track him. They were patient enough to watch him play for Bullets over the seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can also appreciate that George has been outstanding in and out of the seasons. So, his record has solely made it possible for him to put pen to paper [at Tigers],\u201d Kaira said.<\/p>\n

In a telephone interview, Tigers Chief Administration Manager, Nester Petros, confirmed to have signed the former Zimbabwe\u2019s Caps United player.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is very true; he is here with us. I cannot disclose how long the contract is but it is a long one. His performance will also determine the period he stays with us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really knew him from Zimbabwe because we also have three players from Zimbabwe. Moreover, the time he has been here, he has proved to be a great defender,\u201d Petros said.<\/p>\n

Bullets Chief Executive Officer, Fleetwood Haiya, said they have processed everything to do with Nyirenda\u2019s transfer to Tigers.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis contract was supposed to expire on February 28 this month<\/a>. However, when he approached us that he had found another opportunity in Namibia, we felt that we could not bar him because he is our son.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we cleared him and terminated the contract. I am not sure about the period he has signed with Tigers because that did not involve us because we allowed him to go as a free agent,\u201d Haiya said.<\/p>\n

Football Association of Malawi Transfer Matching System Manager, Casper Jangale, said he was not aware of Nyirenda\u2019s transfer because he had just returned to office.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1927 in Windhoek, Tigers are based at the 25,000-seater Sam Nujoma Stadium.<\/p>\n

Former Bullets striker, Muzipasi Mwangonde, also played for Black Africa FC in Namibia.<\/p>\n

The Brave Warriors of Namibia are stronger than the Flames, having participated in the 2018 African Nations Championship in Morocco a few weeks ago and also won 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discarded Nyasa Big Bullets defender, George Nyirenda, has signed a long-term deal with Namibia\u2019s Premier League champions, United Africa Tigers, as a free agent. His Manager, Uchindami Kaira, on Monday confirmed that the dread-locked defender went to Namibia a fortnight ago to try his luck at Tigers, following his release by Bullets. \u201cHe laboured in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61244","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\/61244","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=61244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61248,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61244\/revisions\/61248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}