{"id":69027,"date":"2018-09-03T10:57:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T08:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=69027"},"modified":"2018-09-03T10:57:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T08:57:36","slug":"malawi-rugby-team-thrashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/malawi-rugby-team-thrashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi rugby team thrashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Malawi rugby national team endured a miserable campaign in Zambia\u2019s Lusaka Sevens Rugby tournament after losing four consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>The team lost the opening game 61-0 against Blue Bulls before surrendering the second 35-7 to Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi\u2019s woes continued in the third game with a 51-0 loss to hosts Zambia before enduring a 22-17 defeat to Lesotho. The Malawians were playing their last game as we went to press on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview from Lusaka yesterday, assistant Coach Martin Chilakalaka said the team started on a bad note but began to improve as the tournament progressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results and playing standards got better as the competition progressed. The most disappointing thing was the last game against Lesotho which was 17-17 at one point. The Sothos went on to score with the last play to win the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we should not focus much on the results because the players did their best. We competed against very strong teams and we have learnt a lot during the tournament. I am sure next time we will do better,\u2019\u2019 Chilakalaka said.<\/p>\n<p>This was Malawi\u2019s maiden participation in the tournament, which ended Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malawi rugby national team endured a miserable campaign in Zambia\u2019s Lusaka Sevens Rugby tournament after losing four consecutive games. The team lost the opening game 61-0 against Blue Bulls before surrendering the second 35-7 to Zimbabwe. Malawi\u2019s woes continued in the third game with a 51-0 loss to hosts Zambia before enduring a 22-17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69027","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\/69027","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=69027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69031,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69027\/revisions\/69031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}