{"id":68247,"date":"2018-07-10T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68247"},"modified":"2018-07-10T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:03:33","slug":"malawi-coaches-on-spying-mission-to-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/10\/malawi-coaches-on-spying-mission-to-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi coaches on spying mission to Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Peter Kanjere<\/p>\n

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TRAVELLED TO ZAMBIA\u2014Fazili and RVG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ronny van Geneugden, Malawi\u2019s national team coach and under 20 assistant mentor, Lovemore Fazili, went on a spy mission to Zambia to watch South Africa\u2019s Amajita draw 3-3 against Zambia in a friendly played at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka over the weekend<\/p>\n

Malawi\u2019s under 20 meets South Africa this coming Sunday in the Under \u2013 20 Africa Cup of Nations third and final qualifying round.<\/p>\n

Football Association of Malawi Technical Director, John Kaputa, confirmed on Monday that his office dispatched Fazili to spy on South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sent Fazili and empowered him on what is involved when spying on a game and team. RVG also went there. We are serious. They went to spy on them and that is a fact,\u201d Kaputa said.<\/p>\n

During Sunday\u2019s game, South Africa scored through Wiseman Meyiwa, Lyle Foster and Promise Nkhuma whereas the Zambians, who lost 0-1 to Malawi in a friendly<\/a> played at the same venue two weeks ago, were on target courtesy of Martin Njobvu, Francisco Mwepu and Kings Kangwa.<\/p>\n

In a post-match interview in Lusaka, South Africa Coach, Thabo Senong, \u00a0claimed that Malawi were \u2018very worried\u2019 with Amajita ahead of the two matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cZambia are a good team. They made us run; we knew that they could give us a good friendly. We are going back home to prepare for the game against Malawi. We just have to go back to the drawing board and try to improve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Asked as to how he rates Amajita\u2019s chances of beating the Junior Flames at Moruleng Stadium in Rustenburg then in Lilongwe, Senong said Malawi were worried.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be very tough, I must be honest. They scored five goals against Angola\u2014home and away\u2014we did an analysis. We have to work hard; we have to prepare hard. It is important that we do well at home in the first-leg because it is not going to be easy away. They are worried about us but we also need to respect them and make sure we prepare a better team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

South African coach justified his decision to play against the Junior Chipolopolo.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, the result of this friendly does not reflect on what will happen in these qualifiers. When you play friendlies, you focus on performance, implementation of tactics and the process of your principles. We are not here not to focus on results,\u201d Senong said.<\/p>\n

Reacting to Senong\u2019s remarks, Kaputa and Team Manager, Aubrey Nankhuni, separately said they were buoyed by the Junior Flames good record on the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sat down with the boys and told them that they reached this stage due to their impressive away performances in Angola and Swaziland. They are starting away. \u2018We bang them in South Africa and bury them here in Malawi,\u2019 that was my message to the team,\u201d Kaputa said.<\/p>\n

The overall winner over the two legs will qualify for the 2019 Afcon finals in Niger. The Junior Flames last qualified for the final of continental competition in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Peter Kanjere Ronny van Geneugden, Malawi\u2019s national team coach and under 20 assistant mentor, Lovemore Fazili, went on a spy mission to Zambia to watch South Africa\u2019s Amajita draw 3-3 against Zambia in a friendly played at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka over the weekend Malawi\u2019s under 20 meets South Africa this coming Sunday in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68247","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\/68247","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=68247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68259,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68247\/revisions\/68259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}