{"id":68291,"date":"2018-07-12T09:31:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T07:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68291"},"modified":"2018-07-12T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T07:31:56","slug":"big-bullets-register-1000-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/12\/big-bullets-register-1000-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bullets register 1,000 fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY ISAAC SALIMA:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fan base for Malawi&#8217;s most successful football club, Nyasa Big Bullets, keeps on growing with 1,000 fans added in on going membership registration exercise, said Fleetwood Haiya, the club&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer.<\/p>\n<p>A fortnight ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/big-bullets-supporters-intensify-registration\/\">Bullets revived the exercise<\/a> after it failed a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Haiya said over 1,000 members have registered so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very grateful to the fans for their response. We have already exceeded the 1,000-mark, just days after the exercise was launched. We hope that, by the end of this month, we would have registered over 5,000 fans,\u201d Haiya said.<\/p>\n<p>He said after hitting the 5,000-mark, they would have an official launch of the drive.<\/p>\n<p>Haiya said they would like to reach out to more supporters in remote areas by increasing machinery for registration.<\/p>\n<p>The cards are in categories of Platinum for K100,000, Gold K50,000, Silver K25,000 and Maule K1,000.<\/p>\n<p>Haiya said most fans are opting for the cards pegged at K1,000.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming that all the 1,000 supporters bought the K1,000 cards, this would translate to K1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the development, Mulanje District Bullets Supporters Committee Chairperson, Charles Phiri, has since asked the team to reach out to more supporters in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>A similar exercise, which flopped a few years ago, registered less than 1,000 members.<\/p>\n<p>Bullets reportedly boast a fan-base of over two million across the country. Registered fans will enjoy benefits such as funeral cover and easy access to games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY ISAAC SALIMA: The fan base for Malawi&#8217;s most successful football club, Nyasa Big Bullets, keeps on growing with 1,000 fans added in on going membership registration exercise, said Fleetwood Haiya, the club&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer. A fortnight ago, Bullets revived the exercise after it failed a few years ago. Haiya said over 1,000 members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68291","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\/68291","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=68291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68295,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68291\/revisions\/68295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}