{"id":74642,"date":"2019-02-20T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T07:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=74642"},"modified":"2019-02-20T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T07:48:04","slug":"malawi-under-23-in-stuttering-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/malawi-under-23-in-stuttering-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Under-23 in stuttering start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Peter Kanjere:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_74646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74646\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/flames-under-23-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/flames-under-23-1-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/flames-under-23-1-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/flames-under-23-1.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LEARNING CURVE\u2014Under-23 in action against STVV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malawi under-23 national football team started its tour of Belgium with a 3-1 loss to the European country\u2019s Pro- League football club, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stvv.com\/nl\">STVV<\/a>, in a practice match played at Stayen Stadium in Sint- Truiden.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that Malawi Coach, Meke Mwase, reshuffled his squad in each half against the opponents who are positioned fifth on the log table of the Belgian top tier league.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Juma Yatina of Masters Security scored the consolation for Malawi who are fine-tuning for the Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Zambia on March 20 in Blantyre and March 26 in Lusaka.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half, Mwase featured goalkeeper Rabson Chiyenda; defenders Hadji Wali, Dennis Chembezi, Charles Petro, Mark Fodya; midfielders Isaac Kaliati, Chimwemwe Idana, Levison Maganizo, Peter Banda, attackers Batson Chikaiko, and Hassan Kajoke.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Mwase threw into action keeper Brighton Munthali, defenders Trevor Kalema, Peter Cholopi, Gomezgani Chirwa, Stanley Sanudi; midfielders Ernest Tambe, Francis Mkonda, Gregory Nachipo, Mike Mkwate; strikers Patrick Phiri and Yatina.<\/p>\n<p>The under-23 team will stop-over in Egypt on March 3 for a friendly against the Young Pharaohs before proceeding to Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>Flames Coach, Ronny van Geneugden, who facilitated the trip to his home country, is also part of the Malawi delegation. Malawi\u2019s next game is against OHL on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Kanjere: Malawi under-23 national football team started its tour of Belgium with a 3-1 loss to the European country\u2019s Pro- League football club, STVV, in a practice match played at Stayen Stadium in Sint- Truiden. Reports indicate that Malawi Coach, Meke Mwase, reshuffled his squad in each half against the opponents who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74642","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\/74642","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=74642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74648,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74642\/revisions\/74648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}