{"id":75785,"date":"2019-03-19T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=75785"},"modified":"2019-03-19T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T08:45:08","slug":"total-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/03\/19\/total-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Total respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zambia\u2019s under-23 national football team finally jetted in the country Monday to the reality of meeting a team that wants to prove a point.<\/p>\n<p>The young Chipolopolo take on Malawi at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre Wednesday in the first leg of the under-23 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the two teams\u2019 players know each other from their meetings at under-20 level last year when Zambia won 1-0 in Lilongwe, while Malawi hit back by the same margin in the Lusaka encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi made known their serious intentions about qualifying for the finals by spending two weeks in Belgium and Egypt for preparatory matches.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/malawi-under-23-finalise-preparations-with-egypt-match\/\"> junior Flames<\/a> will certainly be aiming to prove that the foreign trip was worth it by beating their neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on arrival at Chileka Airport in Blantyre, Zambia stand-in Coach Bilton Musonda said, while his charges were favourites on paper, he feared for what the junior Flames could achieve playing at their backyard.<\/p>\n<p>Musonda said Malawi are capable of winning the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is a difficult match for both of us. We know Malawi have had good preparations after camping in Belgium. We also had a short stay in South Africa; so, this will make the game exciting and tough,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Musonda, who hailed Football Association of Malawi for according his team a warm reception, said the two sides must have total respect for each other and avoid taking things for granted during the match.<\/p>\n<p>Zambia arrived without Coach Beston Chambeshi and highly-rated Patson Daka who plies his trade in Belgium. Chambeshi arrived Monday evening while Daka is expected to join teammates Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Zambia\u2019s under-23 national football team finally jetted in the country Monday to the reality of meeting a team that wants to prove a point. The young Chipolopolo take on Malawi at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre Wednesday in the first leg of the under-23 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. Most of the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75785","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\/75785","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=75785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75789,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75785\/revisions\/75789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}