{"id":70075,"date":"2018-10-07T06:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T04:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=70075"},"modified":"2018-10-07T06:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T04:02:52","slug":"rvg-drops-gerald-phiri-jnr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/10\/07\/rvg-drops-gerald-phiri-jnr\/","title":{"rendered":"RVG drops Gerald Phiri Jnr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Mphatso Malidadi: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ronny-van-geneudgen-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ronny-van-geneudgen-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ronny-van-geneudgen-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ronny-van-geneudgen-1-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ronny-van-geneudgen-1-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ronny-van-geneudgen-1-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ronny-van-geneudgen-1.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Malawi national football team Coach Ronny van Geneugden (RVG) has left out dead ball specialist Gerald Phiri Junior from his final 20-man squad for Friday\u2019s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Cameroon in Yaound\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release from Football Association of Malawi, Red Lions holding midfielder Chikoti Chirwa, who was not part of the team for a year as he was out of the country for military duties, and Be Forward Wanderers playmaker, Yamikani Chester, are the two new faces in the team.<\/p>\n<p>Chirwa and Chester did not travel to Morocco where the Flames lost 3-0 early last month.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe team will leave on Monday, 8th October, through Chileka Airport at 15:10 ahead of the fixture on Friday,\u201d<\/em> reads part of the release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>RVG said it is the responsibility of the technical panel and the entire nation to encourage foreign-based players who are lacking game time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe should not abandon them. Let us look at ways of helping them to continue believing in themselves,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Flames are third in Group B with three points behind leaders Cameroon and second-placed Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroun have four points whereas Morocco have three and pip Malawi on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>Comoros Islands anchor the table with a point.<\/p>\n<p>The following is the full list of the squad:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers-<\/strong>Charles Swini, Brighton Munthali<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders-<\/strong>Stanley Sanudi, Gomezgani Chirwa, Limbikani Mzava, John Lanjesi, Dennis Chembezi, Peter Cholopi, Precious Sambani.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfields-<\/strong>Alfred Manyozo, John Banda, Frank Banda, Rafick Namwera, Jabulani Linje, Chikoti Chirwa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strikers-<\/strong>Richard Mbulu, Gabadinho Mhango, Patrick Phiri, Chiukepo Msowoya, Yamikani Chester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawi national football team Coach Ronny van Geneugden (RVG) has left out dead ball specialist Gerald Phiri Junior from his final 20-man squad for Friday\u2019s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Cameroon in Yaound\u00e9. According to a press release from Football Association of Malawi, Red Lions holding midfielder Chikoti Chirwa, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70075","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\/70075","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=70075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70079,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70075\/revisions\/70079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}