{"id":75855,"date":"2019-03-21T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T08:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=75855"},"modified":"2019-03-21T10:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T08:30:45","slug":"flames-ready-james-sangala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/03\/21\/flames-ready-james-sangala\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames ready\u2014 James Sangala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/james-sangala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-69246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/james-sangala-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/james-sangala-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/james-sangala-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/james-sangala.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Malawi national football team manager, James Sangala, has said he is impressed with the players\u2019 attitude and level of fitness ahead of Friday\u2019s dead-rubber Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier against Morocco at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is really encouraging that the players are working very hard in training. They are eager to prove a point against Morocco. We have a very good group of players with the right attitude. We are confident that we can do something positive on Friday,\u201d<\/em> Sangala said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Flames received a boost on Tuesday after the United States\u2019 North Carolina FC attacker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/yamikani-chester-gets-north-carolina-debut\/\">Yamikani Chester<\/a> joined the squad. Other foreign-based players in camp are John Banda, Gabadinho Mhango, Binwell Katinji, Gerald Phiri Junior and Stain Davie.<\/p>\n<p>Former Be Forward Wanderers striker Albert Mpinganjira Wednesday said despite that the Flames are out of the competition, the match offers the players a chance to prove a point.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cPlayers need to show us that they deserve to play for the national team. Wearing national team colours was not a joke during our days, so the players should work hard. Playing against Morocco offers the players a chance to market themselves because scouts will watch the game,\u2019 \u2019<\/em>Mpinganjira said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Malawi national football team manager, James Sangala, has said he is impressed with the players\u2019 attitude and level of fitness ahead of Friday\u2019s dead-rubber Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier against Morocco at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe. \u201cIt is really encouraging that the players are working very hard in training. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75855","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\/75855","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=75855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75859,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75855\/revisions\/75859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}