The shambolic Malawi national football team, the Flames, have been drawn in the same preliminary round group B with Angola, Botswana and Mauritius at the forthcoming Cosafa Castle Cup in South Africa.<\/p>\n
The event is scheduled for Limpopo Province from May 27 to June 9 2018.<\/p>\n
It was interesting to read a reaction from Flames Coach, Ronny van Geneugden, popularly known as RVG, the man who took the same team to a disastrous outing during last year\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n
The Belgian mentor, whose gospel of football philosophy has terribly backfired, thinks this is an open group and Malawi needs to start with a big result in this regional competition.<\/p>\n
It is undisputable fact that I have been around long enough to know the realities of football and the capabilities of our senior national team coach.<\/p>\n
It is absolutely ridiculous for RVG to say that \u201clast year we started the tournament when most players were new but now they have gained experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Can RVG name inexperienced players who featured for Malawi at last year\u2019s Cosafa tournament?<\/p>\n
In as far as I\u2019m concerned all the players he took to that tournament had international experience.<\/p>\n
Possibly RVG forgot that we were watching from a distance as SuperSport Television delivered each and every embarrassing moment that was unfolding in Malawi\u2019s camp as we helplessly sat in our homes.<\/p>\n
It is sad that Malawi has sunk so low it can even afford to lose to lowly-ranked teams like Botswana, Lesotho and Mauritius. It has never got this worse in Malawi’s football history.<\/p>\n
And to imagine that the coach, who is supposed to be at home strategising for the next tournament, is busy global-trotting with the youth team is absolutely unacceptable.<\/p>\n
I have always questioned the rationale behind RVG\u2019s involvement in the junior national teams but I have always been told that he is there to impart his philosophy to the young ones.<\/p>\n
Taking a closer look at how the Flames are performing, there is no iota of truth in the gospel that is being preached, and it is a sheer waste of time, space and ink to continue debating on this issue.<\/p>\n
I am told that some wayward personalities upon their return from the disastrous Commonwealth Games outing in Australia, said that I am very critical and this column cannot be used as a model of good journalism.<\/p>\n
Seriously, Makosana, which journalist would sit back and watch all this trash happening in Malawi sports?<\/p>\n
I need one brave person to tell me one positive thing to write about Malawi sports because all I see is mediocrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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