{"id":72399,"date":"2018-12-18T01:25:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T23:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72399"},"modified":"2018-12-18T01:25:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T23:25:31","slug":"silver-wanders-step-up-fisd-preps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/12\/18\/silver-wanders-step-up-fisd-preps\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver, Wanders step up Fisd preps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Mabvuto Kambuwe<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fisd Challenge Cup finalists Be Forward Wanderers and Silver Strikers have stepped up preparations ahead of their meeting at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe on Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The finalists will fine-tune for the final when they play TNM Super League games tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nyasa Big Bullets host Silver at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre with TN Stars welcoming\u00a0 Wanderers at Kasungu Stadium tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Silver will surely give Bullets a guard of honour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wanderers Team Manager, Steve Madeira, said they would not rotate their squad as that would disturb the team\u2019s momentum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cWe have to keep the players active. We do not want them to lose steam. The game against Silver is our game of the season and everybody knows the importance of the game,\u201d Madeira said.<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wanderers thrashed Moyale Barracks 7-2 on Saturday whereas Silver last played a competitive match last week as they defeated Bullets 2-0 in the cup\u2019s semi-final. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Silver Coach, Lovemore Fazili, said they have intensified preparations for the final. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cSince we participated in the Confederations Cup games, we have been training twice a day. We will also train in Blantyre. We are sure that we will get something against Wanderers on Sunday,\u201d Fazili said.<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cup provides Silver and Wanderers a perfect opportunity to win silverware this season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0The winner of the trophy will pocket K16 million plus a trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe Fisd Challenge Cup finalists Be Forward Wanderers and Silver Strikers have stepped up preparations ahead of their meeting at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe on Sunday. The finalists will fine-tune for the final when they play TNM Super League games tomorrow. Nyasa Big Bullets host Silver at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72399","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\/72399","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=72399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72404,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72399\/revisions\/72404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}