{"id":79334,"date":"2019-06-19T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79334"},"modified":"2019-06-19T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:11:21","slug":"tigresses-secure-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/19\/tigresses-secure-sponsorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigresses secure sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44837\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mary-waya-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44837\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mary-waya-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mary-waya-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mary-waya-1-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mary-waya-1-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mary-waya-1-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mary-waya-1.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Waya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lilongwe Dairy Limited has, through its First Choice Milk brand, rescued one of the country\u2019s oldest netball clubs, Tigressess, after announcing a K30 million three-year sponsorship agreement with them<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The sponsorship is worth K10 million per year and the the team will now be called First Choice Tigresses, ending a seven-year sponsorship drought.<\/p>\n<p>Tigresses\u2019 players, dressed in gold and black attire, welcomed the sponsorship unveiling ceremony in Lilongwe by singing and ululating.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s marketing manager, Gabriel Phiri, said it was an historic moment for them to partner Tigresses.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe, a company, are proud that the sport has played a key role in the development of the country. A winning brand shall always look for a winning team; hence, our first choice for the team. In Malawi, we can\u2019t write netball history without Tigressess, so we believe that the team will do well in the country,\u201d<\/em> Phiri said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Netball legend, Mary Waya, graced the occasion as the guest of honour in her capacity as Director of Netball in the Ministry of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development.<\/p>\n<p>She expressed her gratitude to the company for the timely sponsorship.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt has come at a good time as netball, in general, is in a sponsorship drought at the national level. This is the best moment for netball and we appeal to other companies to support netball,\u201d<\/em> Waya said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In her remarks, Tigresses Manager, Hellen Mpinganjira-Tasosa was on cloud nine and promised to give back to the sponsors.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe have got a challenge to be first choice in whatever we do. We are going to deliver and fight for trophies,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Formed in 1974, Tigresses have won several accolades in defunct Airtel Netball Cup, GOtv and Presidential Netball Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Tigresses were last sponsored by the late State president Bingu wa Mutharika.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Lilongwe Dairy Limited has, through its First Choice Milk brand, rescued one of the country\u2019s oldest netball clubs, Tigressess, after announcing a K30 million three-year sponsorship agreement with them Tuesday. The sponsorship is worth K10 million per year and the the team will now be called First Choice Tigresses, ending a seven-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79334","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\/79334","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=79334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79339,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79334\/revisions\/79339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}