{"id":68461,"date":"2018-07-19T10:12:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T08:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68461"},"modified":"2018-07-19T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T08:12:52","slug":"chigoli-academy-player-us-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/19\/chigoli-academy-player-us-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Chigoli Academy player US-bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY MABVUTO KAMBUWE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zobran Elias is set to become the first player from Lilongwe\u2019s Chigoli Academy to earn a $62,000 [K44 million] per-year scholarship to study at Indian Mountain School in Lakeville, Connecticut, the United States (US), this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Zobran, 14, will travel to America after being chosen for the student-athlete pathway programme for academically-inclined players at the academy.<\/p>\n<p>Chigoli founder, George Maguire, described the scholarship as a life-time opportunity for the youngster, whose dream is to become a collegiate athlete and neurosurgeon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZobran personifies the type of player, student and person we, at Chigoli Academy are working hard to develop for Malawi. [He is] hardworking, diligent, talented and of a good character,\u201d Maguire said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Zobran\u2019s character, focus on education and sports impressed several schools in the US but he ultimately chose Indian Mountain and he will join them next month.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Kaimmer, who leads the academy\u2019s initiatives in the US, said: \u201cChigoli\u2019s players in Malawi possess immense potential. Educational scholarships to America can help unlock it and set our student-athletes onto transformative educational journeys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chigoli wants to be offering such scholarships to between three and five children every year.<\/p>\n<p>Chigoli has contributed three players to the Malawi under-17 national football team that is in Mauritius ahead of the kickoff of the Cosafa Championship today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MABVUTO KAMBUWE: Zobran Elias is set to become the first player from Lilongwe\u2019s Chigoli Academy to earn a $62,000 [K44 million] per-year scholarship to study at Indian Mountain School in Lakeville, Connecticut, the United States (US), this summer. Zobran, 14, will travel to America after being chosen for the student-athlete pathway programme for academically-inclined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68461","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\/68461","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=68461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68466,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68461\/revisions\/68466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}