{"id":74685,"date":"2019-02-21T03:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=74685"},"modified":"2019-02-21T03:40:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:40:39","slug":"stvv-coach-praises-under-23-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/02\/21\/stvv-coach-praises-under-23-character\/","title":{"rendered":"STVV coach praises under-23 character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Belgian club STVV Coach, Marc Brys, has heaped praises on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/malawi-under-23-in-stuttering-start\/\">Malawi under-23<\/a> national football team, despite beating them 3-1 in a training match played on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a post-match interview, the <a href=\"https:\/\/us.soccerway.com\/teams\/belgium\/sint-truidense-vv\/229\/\">STVV<\/a> mentor singled out talented youngster Peter Banda after an impressive performance during the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is an ambitious team with players who are eager. I like it. They have two quick strikers especially the young guy behind the strikers, number 20. I like him most; he is too mobile,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brys said Flames Coach, Ronny van Geneugden (RVG), is a respected coach back home in Belgium despite registering poor results with the Flames.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames have, under RVG, won twice in 20 games, the rest being 10 draws and eight losses since he took over in April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Under-23 Coach, Meke Mwase, said he was impressed with the performance of his charges despite that they lost to STVV.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe played very good football but we have the same problem of failing to score [many goals]. We need to find a solution. I am very sure that when meeting Zambia, we will be sharp upfront,\u201d<\/em> Mwase said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The under-23 will camp in Belgium until March 3 before proceeding to Egypt for a friendly.<\/p>\n<p>During the first match in Belgium, Mwase used two different squads in each half.<\/p>\n<p>Juma Yatina scored the consolation goal for the junior Flames.<\/p>\n<p>The junior Flames are preparing for the Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Zambia next month.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi advanced to the second round after beating Botswana 3-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>The under-23 team won 2-1 in Botswana before a 1-1 draw at Kamuzu Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Belgian club STVV Coach, Marc Brys, has heaped praises on Malawi under-23 national football team, despite beating them 3-1 in a training match played on Tuesday. In a post-match interview, the STVV mentor singled out talented youngster Peter Banda after an impressive performance during the game. \u201cIt is an ambitious team with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74685","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\/74685","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=74685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74694,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74685\/revisions\/74694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}