{"id":78758,"date":"2019-06-05T10:58:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T08:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=78758"},"modified":"2019-06-05T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T08:58:40","slug":"kakhobwe-makes-earnest-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/05\/kakhobwe-makes-earnest-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakhobwe makes earnest apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malawi national football team goalkeeper, Ernest Kakhobwe, has apologised to the nation following his costly blunder that gifted Zambia a Cosafa Cup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/flames-mess-out-of-cosafa\/\">semi-final slot<\/a> in South Africa on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI am equally at pains following the incident. It was not my intention to miss the ball. If you can look closely at the ball, it hit a bump and changed direction as I was about to kick it. As such, I missed it as I was also in motion. I know the nation is at pains so am I. Let us forget the mistake and learn the lessons,\u201d<\/em> the goalie said in a WhatsApp voice note.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Nyasa Big Bullets shot-stopper said it was time to move on and focus on the remaining games at the tournament in Durban.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames met Comoros Tuesday in a Plate Section semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Kakhobwe missed a back pass from left-back Precious Sambani to hand Zambia an equalising goal in the 89th minute in a quarter-final game that ended 2-2 to pave the way for post-match penalty shootout which the Chipolopolo won 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi were, then, leading following goals from Gabadinho Mhango and Gerald Phiri Junior before Zambia responded through Austin Muwowo and Emmanuel Chabula.<\/p>\n<p>During the penalty shootouts, Phiri and Stanley Sanudi scored for Malawi while Sambani and Chawanangwa Kawonga missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawi national football team goalkeeper, Ernest Kakhobwe, has apologised to the nation following his costly blunder that gifted Zambia a Cosafa Cup semi-final slot in South Africa on Sunday evening. \u201cI am equally at pains following the incident. It was not my intention to miss the ball. If you can look closely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78758","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\/78758","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=78758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78762,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78758\/revisions\/78762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}