{"id":72078,"date":"2018-11-26T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T08:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72078"},"modified":"2018-11-26T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T08:09:50","slug":"malawi-fall-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/11\/26\/malawi-fall-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi fall on the beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/malawi-beach-soccer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-72085\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/malawi-beach-soccer-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/malawi-beach-soccer-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/malawi-beach-soccer-190x122.jpg 190w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/malawi-beach-soccer.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Malawi beach soccer national team stumbled at this year\u2019s Copa Dar-es-Salaam Tournament in Tanzania after finishing on fourth position to surrender silver medals they won last year.<\/p>\n<p>In a third-place match played Sunday afternoon, Malawi lost to Seychelles 11-12. It was a painful defeat as Malawi started the campaign on a high note after beating Seychelles 8-3 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Before the third-place match, Malawi were favourites after the win against Seychelles.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi failed to maintain the momentum on Saturday as they lost 12-8 to Uganda before going down 5-2 to hosts Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking earlier after losing to Tanzania, Malawi Coach, Stereo Gondwe, said, at times, officiation at the tournament was not at its best.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cNevertheless, the guys were impressive fighting tooth and nail to get a result,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: The Malawi beach soccer national team stumbled at this year\u2019s Copa Dar-es-Salaam Tournament in Tanzania after finishing on fourth position to surrender silver medals they won last year. In a third-place match played Sunday afternoon, Malawi lost to Seychelles 11-12. It was a painful defeat as Malawi started the campaign on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72078","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=72078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72086,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72078\/revisions\/72086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}