{"id":72717,"date":"2019-01-02T01:37:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T23:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72717"},"modified":"2019-01-02T01:37:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T23:37:45","slug":"tabitha-chawinga-stays-put-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/02\/tabitha-chawinga-stays-put-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabitha Chawinga stays put in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tabitha-chawinga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-53592\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tabitha-chawinga-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tabitha-chawinga-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tabitha-chawinga.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>China-based striker Tabitha Chawinga has said she is not in a hurry to switch teams after reports indicated that she was on French giants Lyon\u2019s radar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/tabitha-chawinga-wins-chinese-super-cup\/\">Chawinga<\/a>, who top-scored for Chinese Women\u2019s Super League side, Jiangsu Sunning, said she has no plans of moving to France at the moment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI am happy playing for my team in China and, second, I respect my contract as I signed a two-year contract. I have learnt a lot of things in China and I will advance my career while playing there,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Chawinga could not rule out a move after the expiry of his deal in China.<\/p>\n<p>Former Silver Strikers and Civil Sporting Club coach, Thom Mkolongo, said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/tabitha-chawinga-gives-government-food-for-thought\/\">Chawinga<\/a> has made a good decision to stay in China.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cShe needs to stay in China for more years so that she advances her career. She is enjoying game-time in China, so if she moves to another team she will face a new challenge and might struggle,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chawinga won the Golden Boot Award in her debut season in China after scoring 17 goals, seven goals above reigning African Footballer of the Year, Nigerian Asisat Oshoala of champions Dalian Quanjian.<\/p>\n<p>She moved to China after spending three years in Sweden where she won two Golden Boot awards.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old striker, born in Rumphi District, has also been shortlisted for the African Footballer of the Year Award, having missed it last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: China-based striker Tabitha Chawinga has said she is not in a hurry to switch teams after reports indicated that she was on French giants Lyon\u2019s radar. Chawinga, who top-scored for Chinese Women\u2019s Super League side, Jiangsu Sunning, said she has no plans of moving to France at the moment. \u201cI am happy [&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-72717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72717","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=72717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72721,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72717\/revisions\/72721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}