{"id":64741,"date":"2018-05-02T01:10:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T23:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=64741"},"modified":"2018-05-02T01:10:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T23:10:26","slug":"under-20-expects-sharper-peter-banda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/under-20-expects-sharper-peter-banda\/","title":{"rendered":"Under-20 expects sharper Peter Banda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi under-20 national football team expects to benefit from striker Peter Banda\u2019s trip to Brazil with South Africa\u2019s Orlando Pirates\u2019 Project X team.<\/p>\n<p>Banda joined the South African team on Wednesday for Friday\u2019s trip to Rio de Janeiro as part of his two-week trials.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Flames Team Manager, Aubrey Nankhuni, said while the Griffin Youngsters top shooter will be missed during Malawi\u2019s friendly against Zambia today at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe, he expects Banda to come back sharper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompeting in Brazil is a big plus for Peter\u2019s talent. He will be exposed to best facilities that produce world class players. So, we expect him to come back home with more lethal weaponry in front of goal,\u201d Nankhuni said.<\/p>\n<p>He said a sharper Banda would be crucial to the junior Flames\u2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification campaign against Angola, whose first-leg takes place on the weekend of May 12.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, pictures posted on Pirates\u2019 Twitter account depict a smiling Banda at an airport with his Project X teammates bound for Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Banda will rejoin his Malawi teammates in camp upon his return in readiness for the Angola match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi under-20 national football team expects to benefit from striker Peter Banda\u2019s trip to Brazil with South Africa\u2019s Orlando Pirates\u2019 Project X team. Banda joined the South African team on Wednesday for Friday\u2019s trip to Rio de Janeiro as part of his two-week trials. Junior Flames Team Manager, Aubrey Nankhuni, said while the Griffin Youngsters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64741","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\/64741","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=64741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64745,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64741\/revisions\/64745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}