{"id":72402,"date":"2018-12-18T02:39:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72402"},"modified":"2018-12-18T02:39:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:39:17","slug":"malawi-refs-on-caf-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/12\/18\/malawi-refs-on-caf-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi refs on Caf duty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<strong>By Mabvuto Kambuwe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Local referees continue to be recognised on the continent with some chosen to officiate Confederation of African Football (Caf) Cup match between hosts Zambia\u2019s Green Buffaloes and Club Sportif Sfaxien of Tunisia at Nkoloma Stadium tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ishmael Chizinga will officiate the first-round match with the help of first assistant referee Clemence Kanduku, second assistant Festone Kusekuse and fourth official Alfred Chilinda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, Chilinda officiated some Cosafa Under-20 Championship games and a Confederation Cup match involving Buffaloes and El Merreikh Juba of Sudan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National Referees Association General Secretary, Chris Kalichero, said local referees have shown maturity when handling games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201c<em>Most of the referees have improved a lot and they are officiating games professionally. It is encouraging that the referees continue to be considered for the Caf games,\u201d he said. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Flames\u2019 midfielder Hellings Mwakasungula has, meanwhile, urged the referees to handle games professionally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cIt is a good development that some of the referees are officiating international games. I would be happy to see more local referees assigned to such duties,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By Mabvuto Kambuwe \u00a0Local referees continue to be recognised on the continent with some chosen to officiate Confederation of African Football (Caf) Cup match between hosts Zambia\u2019s Green Buffaloes and Club Sportif Sfaxien of Tunisia at Nkoloma Stadium tomorrow. Ishmael Chizinga will officiate the first-round match with the help of first assistant referee Clemence Kanduku, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72402","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\/72402","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=72402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72406,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72402\/revisions\/72406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}