{"id":68677,"date":"2018-07-26T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68677"},"modified":"2018-07-26T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T07:31:09","slug":"fam-targets-under-23-afcon-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/26\/fam-targets-under-23-afcon-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fam targets Under-23 Afcon qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>MABVUTO KAMBUWE: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Football Association of Malawi (Fam) General Secretary, Alfred Gunda, has said most of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/junior-flames-date-south-africa-in-a-must-win\/\">under-20<\/a> national team players that exited the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) last weekend have realistic chances of featuring in the forthcoming 2019 Under-23 Afcon qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Gunda was responding to a question on the future of the under-20 team, which lost 0-2 to South Africa\u2019s Amajita in the final qualifying round match at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the Cosafa Cup for the Under-20 players and also the Under-23 Afcon qualifiers. I think most of the Under-20 players might be considered for the Under-23 Afcon qualifiers, alongside some players who graduated from the team one or two years ago,\u201d Gunda said.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi has registered to take part in the competition, which is used as the qualifier for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games slated for Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The Under-23 Afcon finals will take place in Egypt in December 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Fam Technical Director, John Kaputa, confirmed that Malawi would take part in the Under-23 Afcon qualifiers and the Afcon Women qualifiers as they target qualification to the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>After the defeat to South Africa, junior Flames Coach, Meke Mwase, said the future of Malawi football looks bright.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not focus on the results only but development of the players. I think we have exposed many players through the competition and, if we take part in other competitions, we will have a bright future as a nation,\u201d Mwase said.<\/p>\n<p>Amajita Coach, Thabo Senong, also praised the junior Flames, saying the country has assembled a good side.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Pater Banda, Charles Petro, Charles Thom, Chinsinsi Maonga and Hadji Wali are among the players that will likely have a chance of playing in the Under-23 Afcon qualifiers, whose fixtures are not out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MABVUTO KAMBUWE: Football Association of Malawi (Fam) General Secretary, Alfred Gunda, has said most of the under-20 national team players that exited the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) last weekend have realistic chances of featuring in the forthcoming 2019 Under-23 Afcon qualifiers. Gunda was responding to a question on the future of the under-20 team, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68677","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\/68677","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=68677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68681,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68677\/revisions\/68681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}