{"id":72591,"date":"2018-12-28T09:19:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T07:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72591"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T07:22:31","slug":"i-can-do-better-zicco-mkanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/12\/28\/i-can-do-better-zicco-mkanda\/","title":{"rendered":"I can do better \u2014Zicco Mkanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72475\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/zicco-mkanda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72475\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/zicco-mkanda-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/zicco-mkanda-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/zicco-mkanda.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TWO-GOAL HERO\u2014Wanderers\u2019 Mkanda celebrates one of his goals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Be Forward Wanderers leading striker Zicco Mkanda believes he has the energy to keep on scoring goals for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wanderers-in-2nd-fisd-cup-win\/\">Fisd Challenge Cup<\/a> kings next season.<\/p>\n<p>Mkanda netted a brace as Wanderers won the cup after beating Silver Strikers 3-2 at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The former Escom United goal-poacher said he was happy to have re-discovered his scoring form.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt was not easy for me in the first two months at Wanderers because the fans were expecting a lot from me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut I am happy that I have finished the season strongly. I hope to deliver the goods again next season. It will be better if we win the league next season and defend the Fisd Cup,\u201d<\/em> Mkanda said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When asked if he still has ambitions of playing for Malawi national football team, Mkanda was elusive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIf I am performing well for my club, then I can also do it for my country,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was part of the Flames squad that won the Cosafa Plate Section in South Africa in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Football analyst Hellings Mwakasungula heaped praises on Mkanda.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cZicco is a quality player and he has proved his worth this season,\u201d<\/em> Mwakasungula said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mkanda is Wanderers\u2019 leading goal scorer this season in all competitions, having scored 21 goals, including 11 in the TNM Super League and seven in Fisd Cup.<\/p>\n<p>For winning the Fisd Golden Boot, Mkanda will pocket K200,000.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old striker scored two goals in the Carlsberg Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Be Forward Wanderers leading striker Zicco Mkanda believes he has the energy to keep on scoring goals for the Fisd Challenge Cup kings next season. Mkanda netted a brace as Wanderers won the cup after beating Silver Strikers 3-2 at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe last weekend. The former Escom United goal-poacher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72591","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\/72591","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=72591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72596,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72591\/revisions\/72596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}