{"id":76133,"date":"2019-03-28T10:52:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T08:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=76133"},"modified":"2019-03-28T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T08:52:16","slug":"abel-mkandawire-opts-for-mens-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/03\/28\/abel-mkandawire-opts-for-mens-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Abel Mkandawire opts for men\u2019s teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75499\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/abel-mkandawire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-75499\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/abel-mkandawire-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/abel-mkandawire-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/abel-mkandawire.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MKANDAWIRE\u2014 I will do my best<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malawi women\u2019s national football team Coach, Abel Mkandawire, has opted to play test matches against developmental male opposition in the absence of international test matches.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAs a coach, I have to use available resources. In the meantime, we don\u2019t have the resources to play international test matches. I would have preferred games against Zambia and East African teams but we don\u2019t have the resources. This is the reason that we have opted to play against under-17 and 20 boys\u2019 teams,<\/em>\u201d Mkandawire said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The team is in camp in readiness for the <a href=\"https:\/\/tokyo2020.org\/en\/games\/schedule\/\">2020 Tokyo Olympic Games<\/a>\u2019 qualifier against Mozambique set for April 4 at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>Mkandawire said he was encouraged by the players\u2019 attitude in training despite losing 4-1 to First Capital Bank Under-20 National Youth Football League side Namiwawa on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe players are grasping what I am telling them. For instance, during the game against Namiwawa, we conceded some silly goals in the first half and we were trailing 4-0. In the second half, we changed approach and frustrated their plans of hitting us a dozen [of goals]. We scored after changing our formation,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mkandawire said he was emphasising on attack and defence ahead of the match against Mozambique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawi women\u2019s national football team Coach, Abel Mkandawire, has opted to play test matches against developmental male opposition in the absence of international test matches. \u201cAs a coach, I have to use available resources. In the meantime, we don\u2019t have the resources to play international test matches. I would have preferred games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76133","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\/76133","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=76133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76138,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76133\/revisions\/76138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}