{"id":77724,"date":"2019-05-08T08:38:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=77724"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:38:31","slug":"trio-ruled-out-duncan-nyoni-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/05\/08\/trio-ruled-out-duncan-nyoni-recalled\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio ruled out, Duncan Nyoni recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/meke-mwase.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-58249\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/meke-mwase-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/meke-mwase-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/meke-mwase.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Malawi national football team\u2019s preparations for the African Nations Championship (Chan) second leg qualifier against eSwatini have suffered a setback after three players withdrew from training due to injuries they sustained over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Be Forward Wanderers skipper Alfred Manyozo Junior, who pulled his hamstring during his teams\u2019 1-3 loss to Blue Eagles in a TNM Super League match on Sunday, has been ruled out alongside Nyasa Big Bullets\u2019 Patrick Phiri and Peter Banda.<\/p>\n<p>Flames caretaker Coach, Meke Mwase, said the injury of the trio was a setback but he has replacements. Phiri and Manyozo featured in the away match in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/eswatini-coach-expects-tough-2nd-leg\/\">eSwatini<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIn football, we expect such things to happen. They all got injured while playing for their clubs. We hope to contain the situation because we have a lot of good players,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mwase said he had recalled Silver Strikers winger Duncan Nyoni as the team wants to address its woes in the wings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAt first, we called Raphael Phiri of Civil [Sporting Club] but he withdrew as he feels he isn\u2019t fit for national team duties. We have given a chance to Nyoni to show us what he is capable of doing. Even though we have a team in place, it is not automatic that Nyoni or the rest of the players will play,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first leg between eSwatini and Malawi ended goalless at Mavuso Sports Centre last month. Only a win would see the Flames through to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Mwase is leading a coaching panel comprising Bob Mpinganjira and Lovemore Fazili, having replaced Ronny van Geneudgen whose contract expired in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawi national football team\u2019s preparations for the African Nations Championship (Chan) second leg qualifier against eSwatini have suffered a setback after three players withdrew from training due to injuries they sustained over the weekend. Be Forward Wanderers skipper Alfred Manyozo Junior, who pulled his hamstring during his teams\u2019 1-3 loss to Blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77724","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\/77724","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=77724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77729,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77724\/revisions\/77729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}