{"id":74330,"date":"2019-02-12T10:06:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T08:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=74330"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:06:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T08:06:05","slug":"yamikani-chester-makes-carolina-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/02\/12\/yamikani-chester-makes-carolina-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamikani Chester makes Carolina debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Ronald Mpaso: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/yamikani-chester-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-74333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/yamikani-chester-1-1-121x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/yamikani-chester-1-1-121x300.jpg 121w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/yamikani-chester-1-1.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/><\/a>Malawi national football team winger Yamikani Chester\u2019s professional football career finally took off on Saturday when he featured for his United States side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northcarolinafc.com\/\">North Carolina FC<\/a> in a closed door friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Chester was introduced into Carolina\u2019s match against UNC Wilmington in the second-half and played for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>According to Carolina\u2019s website, the main objective of the game was to help coaches evaluate trialists during the early part of pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina won the game 3-0 and their next fixture is today against Duke at Duke University Training Field.<\/p>\n<p>In a message posted on his Twitter page, Chester expressed joy with his maiden appearance for his club.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt was an honour to get my first opportunity of game time for North Carolina FC. I played for 30 minutes in the second half and we won 3-0,\u201d<\/em> part of the message reads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The team\u2019s pre-season schedule continues on Saturday with a match against UNC Chapel Hill, to be followed by an encounter with Charlotte Independence on February 23.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s last pre-season match is on March 2 against Charleston Battery.<\/p>\n<p>Chester was bought from Be Forward Wanderers by Czech club MFK, who loaned him out to Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ronald Mpaso: Malawi national football team winger Yamikani Chester\u2019s professional football career finally took off on Saturday when he featured for his United States side North Carolina FC in a closed door friendly. Chester was introduced into Carolina\u2019s match against UNC Wilmington in the second-half and played for 30 minutes. According to Carolina\u2019s website, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74330","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\/74330","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=74330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74335,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74330\/revisions\/74335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}