{"id":67993,"date":"2018-07-04T06:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T04:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67993"},"modified":"2018-07-04T06:30:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T04:30:29","slug":"win-good-for-preparations-meke-mwase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/04\/win-good-for-preparations-meke-mwase\/","title":{"rendered":"Win good for preparations\u2014Meke Mwase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY PETER KANJERE: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MALAWI under-20 national football team Coach, Meke Mwase, has said his charges\u2019 1-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/junior-flames-win\/\">win in Zambia on Sunday<\/a> augurs well with his game-plan for next month\u2019s crucial games against South Africa\u2019s Amajita.<\/p>\n<p>The Junior Flames travelled to Zambia for the friendly ahead of the third and final qualifying two-legged matches against Amajita in the under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals scheduled for Niger in March, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a post-match interview with the press in Zambia, Mwase said they needed to show character on the road, knowing that they will also start with an away game against South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are happy that we won. We chose Zambia [reigning under-20 Afcon champions] because they have a very good team. We worked very hard and we won. Our first game against South Africa is away [on July 15] and that is why we chose to play against Zambia,\u201d Mwase said.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi will host South Africa on the weekend of July 21, with the overall winner over the two legs sailing through to the finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Junior Flames qualified for the final round after seeing off Angola 5-2 on aggregate, losing 1-2 in Lilongwe before stunning opponents 4-1 in the second-leg to progress to the final round.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi last qualified for the Afcon finals at the under-20 level in 1999 after eliminating South Africa in the qualifiers which took place in 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY PETER KANJERE: MALAWI under-20 national football team Coach, Meke Mwase, has said his charges\u2019 1-0 win in Zambia on Sunday augurs well with his game-plan for next month\u2019s crucial games against South Africa\u2019s Amajita. The Junior Flames travelled to Zambia for the friendly ahead of the third and final qualifying two-legged matches against Amajita [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67993","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\/67993","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=67993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67998,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67993\/revisions\/67998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}