{"id":73418,"date":"2019-01-21T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T07:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73418"},"modified":"2019-01-21T09:07:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T07:07:28","slug":"robin-ngalande-off-to-azerbaijan-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/21\/robin-ngalande-off-to-azerbaijan-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Ngalande off to Azerbaijan today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malawi national football team on-and-off striker Robin Ngalande is expected to fly out of South Africa to Azerbaijan today to start a new lease of life at his new club.<\/p>\n<p>The forward has reportedly finalised his Visa processes in South Africa for the trip to the east European country.<\/p>\n<p>However, the player\u2019s manager, Paul Mitchel of Siyavuma Sports Group, has kept a tight lid on the identity of the club.<\/p>\n<p>But sources in South Africa indicate that Ngalande\u2019s potential club is currently in Turkey for special training as it is struggling in the league.<\/p>\n<p>This means the former Masters Security FC attacker will wait longer to meet his new teammates as the team continues training to revive its flagging fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>Ngalande has been identified as one of the solutions to the team\u2019s woes this season.<\/p>\n<p>His last club was South African Premier Soccer League (PSL) side Baroka FC, where he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/robin-ngalande-hints-on-exit\/\">terminated<\/a> his three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Ngalande has struggled to settle with one team in the last five years, having played for PSL teams Ajax Cape Town, Platinum Stars and Bidvest Wits.<\/p>\n<p>He started his football career with Civo United, where he was spotted by South African top side Mamelodi Sundowns during the 2009 African Youth Championship in Algeria where Malawi made a historic World Youth Championship qualification after claiming bronze.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Spanish and European giants Atletico Madrid spotted him after impressive performances for Sundowns Academy during a youth tournament held in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan\u2019s Premier League is called Topaz Premyer Ligasi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Malawi national football team on-and-off striker Robin Ngalande is expected to fly out of South Africa to Azerbaijan today to start a new lease of life at his new club. The forward has reportedly finalised his Visa processes in South Africa for the trip to the east European country. However, the player\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73418","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\/73418","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=73418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73424,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73418\/revisions\/73424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}