{"id":70657,"date":"2018-10-22T05:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T03:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=70657"},"modified":"2018-10-22T05:07:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T03:07:43","slug":"masters-players-get-lions-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/10\/22\/masters-players-get-lions-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters players get lion\u2019s share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67518\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/alfred-gangata.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67518\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/alfred-gangata-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/alfred-gangata-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/alfred-gangata.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TO DELEGATE\u2013Gangata<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Players for newly-crowned Carlsberg Cup champions, Masters Security, will share 75 per cent of the K12 million prize money.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s patron and owner, Alfred Gangata, said players, as the main stakeholders, should be rewarded handsomely for their exploits following their 5-4 post-match penalty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/masters-get-the-last-sip\/\">victory<\/a> over Be Forward Wanderers at Kamuzu Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe need to honour the players for this historic success. Winning a cup after defeating Wanderers in the final and knocking out defending champions Nyasa Big Bullets in the semifinal is not a fluke. So the players need to be rewarded generously,\u201d<\/em> Gangata said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said the team would continue working hard to register more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis is our second season in the top flight league and winning a national trophy underlines our mission,\u201d<\/em> Gangata said. \u00a0Masters Captain, Francis Mkanda, said Gangata\u2019s generosity will inspire the players to aim at winning more trophies.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are being motivated in different ways to achieve results. Our officials and the sponsor want the team to win more titles and we do not want to disappoint them,\u201d<\/em> Mkanda said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Goalkeeper Bester Phiri, a former Nomad, was yet again the hero of the day after parrying Alfred Manyozo\u2019s last spot kick to inspire Masters to their first ever national trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Masters underlined their serious intent to win the final by flying from Lilongwe to Blantyre early last week.<\/p>\n<p>The team also went to the lake in Salima as it prepared to meet Bullets in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mphatso Malidadi: Players for newly-crowned Carlsberg Cup champions, Masters Security, will share 75 per cent of the K12 million prize money. The team\u2019s patron and owner, Alfred Gangata, said players, as the main stakeholders, should be rewarded handsomely for their exploits following their 5-4 post-match penalty victory over Be Forward Wanderers at Kamuzu Stadium on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70657","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\/70657","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=70657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70662,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70657\/revisions\/70662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}