{"id":71281,"date":"2018-11-05T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T08:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=71281"},"modified":"2018-11-05T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T08:12:58","slug":"bedir-invests-k38-million-in-football-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/11\/05\/bedir-invests-k38-million-in-football-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedir invests K38 million in football pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bedir International School has constructed a state-of-the-art mini football pitch in a bid to contribute to football development in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The artificial grass pitch was officially inaugurated during a colourful ceremony in Lilongwe on Friday and is ideal for seven-aside tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of laying down the pitch, which is at the school\u2019s premises in Area 10, Lilongwe, is estimated at $50,000 [about K38million].<\/p>\n<p>Principal of Bedir Lilongwe campus, Mehmet Atmaca, said the facility was developed in line with their sports policy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cOur policy is to improve the minds of our students through sports as they pursue their studies. We believe that sports and education go hand-in-hand. We are looking at possibilities of constructing a main football pitch,\u201d<\/em> Atmaca said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Malawi National Council of Sports Regional Sports Development Officer for the Centre, Isaac Phiri, hailed the school the facility.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe appreciate what the school has done. It is the first time for us to see a sports facility of this nature in the country. We need more facilities like this one to develop talent at the grassroots,\u201d<\/em> Phiri said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Bedir International School has constructed a state-of-the-art mini football pitch in a bid to contribute to football development in the country. The artificial grass pitch was officially inaugurated during a colourful ceremony in Lilongwe on Friday and is ideal for seven-aside tournaments. The cost of laying down the pitch, which is at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71281","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\/71281","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=71281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71286,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71281\/revisions\/71286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}