{"id":71407,"date":"2018-11-08T04:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=71407"},"modified":"2018-11-08T04:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T02:36:00","slug":"zicco-mkanda-nets-4-in-three-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/11\/08\/zicco-mkanda-nets-4-in-three-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Zicco Mkanda nets 4 in three games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Be Forward Wanderers striker, Zicco Mkanda, has paid tribute to his teammates after scoring four goals in the last three games for the TNM Super League defending champions.<\/p>\n<p>Mkanda struck a brace when Wanderers defeated non-league side, Dwangwa Town Hammers, 3-0 on Tuesday to reach the Fisd Challenge Cup quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Bongani Kaipa scored the first goal for Wanderers.<\/p>\n<p>Mkanda was an epitome of modesty, describing his teammates as influential figures towards his feat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is all about teamwork. My team is playing attacking football thereby creating a lot of scoring chances. This is helping me to score,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mkanda has taken his tally for the season to nine goals in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The forward scored once each when Wanderers drew one-all with Silver Strikers and defeated Karonga United 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Mkanda made a slow start to life at Wanderers following nine years of playing in Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Mkanda moved from now defunct Escom United to join Matchedje de Maputo before signing for Ferroviaro de Beira then switching to Liga Maculumana in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>At Maculmana, he banged 16 goals to win the Golden Boot Award during the 2013\/14 season.<\/p>\n<p>Mkanda, who is a typical centre forward who thrives when playing with his back to the goal, said he has not lost hope of playing in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>He was part of the Flames squad that won the Cosafa Plate Division championship in South Africa in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Be Forward Wanderers striker, Zicco Mkanda, has paid tribute to his teammates after scoring four goals in the last three games for the TNM Super League defending champions. Mkanda struck a brace when Wanderers defeated non-league side, Dwangwa Town Hammers, 3-0 on Tuesday to reach the Fisd Challenge Cup quarter-finals. Defender Bongani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71407","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\/71407","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=71407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71410,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71407\/revisions\/71410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}