{"id":75958,"date":"2019-03-23T02:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T00:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=75958"},"modified":"2019-03-23T02:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T00:23:59","slug":"silver-strikers-big-bullets-battle-for-peter-banda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/03\/23\/silver-strikers-big-bullets-battle-for-peter-banda\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Strikers, Big Bullets battle for Peter Banda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Mabvuto Kambuwe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71930\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/peter-banda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/peter-banda-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/peter-banda-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/peter-banda-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/peter-banda.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SUPER SUB\u2014Banda controls the ball in Tuesday\u2019s match against Botswana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TNM Super League giants Silver Strikers and Nyasa Big Bullets are engaged in a dog fight over the signature of talented Malawi under-23 national football team youngster Peter Banda.<\/p>\n<p>Bullets were in pole position to sign the player but reports suggest that Silver have tabled a lucrative offer trying to hijack the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The player\u2019s uncle, Griffin Saenda Jnr, has confirmed that the two clubs are fighting for the versatile attacker.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Chances of Peter signing for either Bullets or Silver are 50-50. But I want him to join a club which will appreciate his talent and nurture it. Other clubs are just good at signing players but end up destroying them,&#8221;<\/em> Saenda Jnr said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both Silver General Secretary Lawrence Yobe and Bullets Chief Executive Officer Fleetwood Haiya were not available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Banda has travelled to Zambia with the junior Flames for a second leg under-23 Africa Cup of Nations match Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The son of former Bullets midfield dynamo Chikondi Banda had unsuccessful trials with South African giants Orlando Pirates and Bidvest Wits last year.<\/p>\n<p>He also went to Belgium for trials at Club Brugge alongside Precious Sambani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe &nbsp; TNM Super League giants Silver Strikers and Nyasa Big Bullets are engaged in a dog fight over the signature of talented Malawi under-23 national football team youngster Peter Banda. Bullets were in pole position to sign the player but reports suggest that Silver have tabled a lucrative offer trying to hijack [&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-75958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75958","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=75958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75963,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75958\/revisions\/75963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}