{"id":78379,"date":"2019-05-27T02:37:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=78379"},"modified":"2019-05-27T02:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:37:04","slug":"gabadinho-mhango-happy-at-wits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/05\/27\/gabadinho-mhango-happy-at-wits\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabadinho Mhango happy at Wits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malawi national football team striker, Gabadinho Mhango, has lauded his South Africa Premier Soccer League (PSL) club Bidvest Wits\u2019 move to elongate his stay at the Johannesburg-based side.<\/p>\n<p>Wits exercised their one-year contract extension option they had on Mhango to end struggling giants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/chiefs-renew-gaba-bid\/\">Kaizer Chiefs\u2019<\/a> interest in the Malawian.<\/p>\n<p>Mhango confirmed to <em>www.kickoff <\/em>over the weekend that he was staying put at the former champions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI have a contract with the team. We just extended an option because it was only left with one year. This was done two weeks ago,\u201d<\/em> Mhango told the leading South African football publication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The former Bullets striker said he was pleased with the development and promised to work hard in a bid to regain his place in the starting line-up.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI just need to work hard and see what happens next. I am very happy that Wits have decided to exercise the option. The club has also indicated that I could get a new contract, all factors being constant,\u201d<\/em> Mhango said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Chiefs\u2019 interest in his services, the pint-sized goal poacher said he did not want to focus on rumours as he had already committed his future to Wits.<\/p>\n<p>Mhango is part of the Flames squad currently in Durban, South Africa, for the Cosafa Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In the just-ended season, he made only 13 appearances for the Clever Boys, scoring three goals and managing one assist.<\/p>\n<p>Mhango helped Wits to win the MTN 8 Cup in 2016, his first gold medal since moving to the PSL in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In his debut season at Bloemfontein Celtic, Mhango won the club\u2019s Players\u2019 Player of the Season and Top Goal Scorer awards after scoring eight goals.<\/p>\n<p>He also spent six months on loan at Golden Arrows, where he scored vital goals ahead of his move to Wits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Malawi national football team striker, Gabadinho Mhango, has lauded his South Africa Premier Soccer League (PSL) club Bidvest Wits\u2019 move to elongate his stay at the Johannesburg-based side. Wits exercised their one-year contract extension option they had on Mhango to end struggling giants Kaizer Chiefs\u2019 interest in the Malawian. Mhango confirmed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78379","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\/78379","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=78379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78384,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78379\/revisions\/78384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}