Malawi under-17 national football team will kick-start its Cosafa Youth Championship campaign against Angola on July 20 in Mauritius.<\/p>\n
Cosafa released the fixture Monday on the sidelines of the on-going senior championship in Polokwane, South Africa.<\/p>\n
The release of the fixtures follows a draw for the youth championship last week at Old Peter Mokaba Stadium where the Junior Flames were thrown in Group C also comprising Swaziland and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
Malawi\u2019s first match will take place at Auguste Vollaire in Flacq City followed by a tie against Zimbabwe at St Francois Xavier in Port Louis City on July 23.<\/p>\n
The Derklerk Msakakuona side will wind up the group\u2019s campaign by playing against Swaziland on July 25 at Vollaire.<\/p>\n
Malawi will be seeking to better their second consecutive bronze medal finish in the championship which will take place in Mauritius for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n
Zambia are the defending champions. The overall winner of the event will earn a ticket to the Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations in Tanzania next year.<\/p>\n
Malawi has since started mobilising players for the championship.<\/p>\n
Msakakuona told Monday\u2019s edition of The Daily Times <\/em>that good preparations would be crucial to the team\u2019s success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malawi under-17 national football team will kick-start its Cosafa Youth Championship campaign against Angola on July 20 in Mauritius. Cosafa released the fixture Monday on the sidelines of the on-going senior championship in Polokwane, South Africa. The release of the fixtures follows a draw for the youth championship last week at Old Peter Mokaba Stadium […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66383","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\/66383","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=66383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66386,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66383\/revisions\/66386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}