{"id":68794,"date":"2018-07-31T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T07:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68794"},"modified":"2018-07-31T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T07:26:59","slug":"ex-queens-star-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/31\/ex-queens-star-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Queens star dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY PETER KANJERE: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former star shooter Emma Mdzagada\u2014a dedicated clever-footed and sharp-eyed player who helped steer the netball Queens to their zenith on the world stage\u2014died in Blantyre Monday after a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>Netball Association of Malawi General Secretary, Carol Bapu, confirmed the development, saying: \u201cWe are very sad. She contributed a lot to Malawi netball and to the Queens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Queens coach, Edith Kaliati, Monday said she was heartbroken over the demise of Mdzagada, adding \u201cI am sad, she was a good shooter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mdzagada, who used to play in the Queens squad comprising the likes of Mary Waya, Linda Magombo-Munthali, Slyvia Malenga-Mtetemera, Peace Chawinga-Kalua and Connis Mhone (deceased), died at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre where she was admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, she complained of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/emma-mdzagada-hospitalised\/\">leg pains<\/a> and underwent an operation at Beit Cure International Hospital in Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>News about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/emma-mdzagada-still-bedridden\/\">illness of Mdzagada<\/a>, who represented the Queens in World championships and the Commonwealth Games, emerged last year, leading to an outpouring of support from the government and individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Mdzagada started off her career with City of Blantyre before moving to Produsak then Whitex.<\/p>\n<p>The lanky shooter later joined Silver Strikers, before moving to Postnet which was renamed MTL Queens and now Thunder Queens. Mdzagada played for Thunder until 2010.<\/p>\n<p>She started playing for the national team in 1995, travelling to many countries. Her last outing was in Manchester, England, in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY PETER KANJERE: Former star shooter Emma Mdzagada\u2014a dedicated clever-footed and sharp-eyed player who helped steer the netball Queens to their zenith on the world stage\u2014died in Blantyre Monday after a long illness. Netball Association of Malawi General Secretary, Carol Bapu, confirmed the development, saying: \u201cWe are very sad. She contributed a lot to Malawi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68794","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\/68794","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=68794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68799,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68794\/revisions\/68799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}