{"id":74544,"date":"2019-02-18T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T07:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=74544"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T07:08:09","slug":"zambians-want-to-join-cezobal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/02\/18\/zambians-want-to-join-cezobal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians want to join Cezobal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_74548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74548\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/basketball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/basketball-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/basketball-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/basketball.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">INTERNATIONAL DUEL\u2014One of the basketball teams in action over the weekend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Zambia\u2019s Eastern Province has expressed interest in joining Central Zone Basketball League (Cezobal).<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed over the weekend when three Chipata-based teams visited the country for strength-testing matches against Cezobal\u2019s Bravehearts and Cougars at African Bible College (ABC) in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Basketball Cordinator for the province, Kenedy Daka, said they feel it would be easy for them to play games in Lilongwe, which is closer than Lusaka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe intend to affliate to Cezobal because we can afford playing here and not Lusaka because of distance. We do not have a sponsor at the moment, so it is difficult for us to affiliate to Zambia Basketball Association because of distance as most of the games are played in Lusaka,\u201d Daka said.<\/p>\n<p>Cezobal General Secretary Peter Gomani, had no immediate answer to the proposal and only said he needed to consult mother body Basketball Association of Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, we need to check the rules and regulations so that we map the way forward,\u201d Gomani said.<\/p>\n<p>Bravehearts basketball clubs invited Chipata Nets, Chipata Cavs and Chipata Nets Ladies to play strength testing matches.<\/p>\n<p>The games threw off on Friday and ended on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Bravehearts assistant Coach, Dominic Munyenyembe, said the strength-testing matches have helped them to fine-tune for the 2019 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to learn from teams from other countries. As you know, Zambia has stronger basketball teams. We have learnt a lot from these games and it was good that our teams won all their games. This means we are slowly getting there,\u201d Munyenyembe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Zambia\u2019s Eastern Province has expressed interest in joining Central Zone Basketball League (Cezobal). This was disclosed over the weekend when three Chipata-based teams visited the country for strength-testing matches against Cezobal\u2019s Bravehearts and Cougars at African Bible College (ABC) in Lilongwe. Basketball Cordinator for the province, Kenedy Daka, said they feel it [&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-74544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74544","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=74544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74549,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74544\/revisions\/74549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}