{"id":74499,"date":"2019-02-15T23:28:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T21:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=74499"},"modified":"2019-02-15T23:28:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T21:28:59","slug":"lawrence-tico-tico-majawa-training-with-nomads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/02\/15\/lawrence-tico-tico-majawa-training-with-nomads\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence \u2018Tico Tico\u2019 Majawa training with Nomads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Isaac Salima:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Gift-Mkandawire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47726\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Gift-Mkandawire-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Gift-Mkandawire-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Gift-Mkandawire-768x690.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Gift-Mkandawire-1024x920.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Gift-Mkandawire.jpg 1480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Former Malawi national football team and Wanderers midfielder Lawrence \u2018Tico Tico\u2019 Majawa is back in the country with the hope of re-uniting with his former club.<\/p>\n<p>Majawa has been training with Wanderers at Kamuzu Stadium from Tuesday when they returned from the off-season break. His last club outside the country was eSwatini\u2019s Mochudi Centre Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>Wanderers Chairperson Gift Mkandawire and Team Manager Steven Madeira confirmed the development but declined to state if they are interested in signing the veteran player.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cMajawa is indeed training with us. He has just started training with us as one of our sons but I do not know the status of his contract [in eSwatini]. We are going to see how he will perform in training before we begin talking about signing him,\u201d<\/em> Mkandawire said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Chiefs official who declined to be named said Majawa was released at the club last season.<\/p>\n<p>Majawa, who signed for Botswana\u2019s Township Rollers in 2008, quit the Gaborone giants after declining a pay-cut in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>While in Botswana, the former Nomads captain won five league titles, the Mascom Top 8 and two Kabelano Charity Cup medals to establish himself as a legend for Rollers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Isaac Salima: Former Malawi national football team and Wanderers midfielder Lawrence \u2018Tico Tico\u2019 Majawa is back in the country with the hope of re-uniting with his former club. Majawa has been training with Wanderers at Kamuzu Stadium from Tuesday when they returned from the off-season break. His last club outside the country was eSwatini\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74499","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\/74499","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=74499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74509,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74499\/revisions\/74509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}