{"id":72716,"date":"2019-01-02T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72716"},"modified":"2019-01-02T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T23:25:00","slug":"mozambique-champs-sign-john-banda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/02\/mozambique-champs-sign-john-banda\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique champs sign John Banda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66145\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/john-banda-flames.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66145\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/john-banda-flames-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/john-banda-flames-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/john-banda-flames-610x365.jpg 610w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/john-banda-flames.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RATED HIGHLY\u2014John Banda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malawi\u2019s Flames versatile attacker John \u2018CJ\u2019 Banda has completed his switch in Mozambique league from <a href=\"http:\/\/Ferroviaro de Nampula\">Ferroviaro de Nampula<\/a> to champions UD Songo after signing a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Banda, who spent three years at Nampula, will link at Songo with elder brother Frank and compatriot Charles Swini when pre-season training starts on January 8.<\/p>\n<p>Banda confirmed that he was now a Songo player and hopes to impress his new employers next season.<\/p>\n<p>Banda said his target was to win the Mocambola League next season.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI am very excited that I have joined a team of my choice. I want to win the championship in Mozambique. I look forward to opportunities beyond Mozambique,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Songo won the league title for the second consecutive year. On the other hand, Banda helped Nampula to a fourth place finish on the log table with 47 points, having netted seven goals.<\/p>\n<p>Banda moved to Nampula in 2015 from Blue Eagles alongside striker Schumacher Kuwali.<\/p>\n<p>More Malawian players ply their trade in Mocambola League.<\/p>\n<p>Costa do Sol have Malawian players namely Richard Mbulu, Matthews Sibale and Chawanangwa Kawonga whereas Ndaziona Chatsalira is on the books of Nampula.<\/p>\n<p>Other Malawian players based in Mozambique are Dangalira Mnelemba, Simplex Nthala, Sankhani Nyirenda, Innocent Jere, Idrissa Walesi and Moses Chavula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Malawi\u2019s Flames versatile attacker John \u2018CJ\u2019 Banda has completed his switch in Mozambique league from Ferroviaro de Nampula to champions UD Songo after signing a one-year contract. Banda, who spent three years at Nampula, will link at Songo with elder brother Frank and compatriot Charles Swini when pre-season training starts on January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72716","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\/72716","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=72716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72719,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72716\/revisions\/72719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}