{"id":68157,"date":"2018-07-06T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T08:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68157"},"modified":"2018-07-06T10:31:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T08:31:21","slug":"malawi-defence-force-bans-2-players-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/06\/malawi-defence-force-bans-2-players-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Defence Force bans 2 players for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY MABVUTO KAMBUWE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Football careers of Mafco striker Kalisto Kalinda and Kamuzu Barracks (KB) defender Pempho Kamsichiri have been thrown into doubt after the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) headquarters banned them for life from playing for any military Super League team.<\/p>\n<p>MDF spokesperson, Paul Chiphwanya, Thursday confirmed the development after the players were involved in a scuffle during a TNM Super League match between KB and Mafco at Kasungu Stadium on Sunday. The game ended goal-less.<\/p>\n<p>Kalinda and Kamsichiri were red-carded for the scuffle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that there is a directive that the two players should never feature for any army team. At MDF, discipline is core. We do not condone fighting among soldiers. It is total indiscipline,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that the two players have been transferred from their respective units to other units and demoted from their ranks.<\/p>\n<p>But Chiphwanya said transfers are an internal matter in MDF which, in the Super League, also owns Moyale Barracks and Red Lions.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear if the players would be allowed to play for lower division military teams, let alone for civilian ones.<\/p>\n<p>Kalinda\u2019s ban is a big blow to Mafco who are second from bottom on the league\u2019s log table, with eight points from 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>Kalinda is Mafco\u2019s main striker whereas Kamsichiri is KB\u2019s reliable defender, having helped them to win their first-ever Super League championship in 2016 and the Fisd Challenge Cup last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MABVUTO KAMBUWE: Football careers of Mafco striker Kalisto Kalinda and Kamuzu Barracks (KB) defender Pempho Kamsichiri have been thrown into doubt after the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) headquarters banned them for life from playing for any military Super League team. MDF spokesperson, Paul Chiphwanya, Thursday confirmed the development after the players were involved in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68157","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\/68157","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=68157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68161,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68157\/revisions\/68161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}