{"id":67405,"date":"2018-06-24T07:15:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T05:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67405"},"modified":"2018-06-24T07:15:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T05:15:20","slug":"nyfa-suspends-u-20-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/06\/24\/nyfa-suspends-u-20-league\/","title":{"rendered":"NYFA suspends U-20 League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Youth Football Association (NYFA) has suspended FMB Under-20 League games across the country to pave way for some of the league\u2019s players to sit for Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations.<\/p>\n<p>The exams started on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>NYFA Chairperson, Chimango Munthali, said they have created space for the players to concentrate on the examinations because the association values education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the wish of every parent to see their children excelling in class. Therefore, we have devised mechanisms to ensure that the league should, after the examinations, catch up by having some games played midweek,\u201d Munthali said.<\/p>\n<p>Football analyst, Higger Mkandawire, has since commended the suspension of the league, saying football can benefit a lot by having educated people in its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven parents and guardians for these players would certainly be encouraged by this development and they cannot restrict their children from taking part in sports because they know that they are able to balance the two. This is also demonstrates that the association is responsible,\u201d Mkandawire said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Youth Football Association (NYFA) has suspended FMB Under-20 League games across the country to pave way for some of the league\u2019s players to sit for Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations. The exams started on Thursday. NYFA Chairperson, Chimango Munthali, said they have created space for the players to concentrate on the examinations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67405","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\/67405","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=67405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67413,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67405\/revisions\/67413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}