{"id":79694,"date":"2019-06-27T10:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T08:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79694"},"modified":"2019-06-27T10:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T08:22:42","slug":"joyce-mvula-hands-queens-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/27\/joyce-mvula-hands-queens-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Mvula hands Queens boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malawi national netball team\u2019s preparations for the World Cup have received a timely boost, as Manchester Thunder shooter Joyce Mvula has received an all-clear to train with the United Kingdom\u2019s main squad in an off-season drill.<\/p>\n<p>Mvula has been using a protective knee guard after sustaining an injury in a Vitality Superleague decider against Wasps 57-52 in the Grand Final at London\u2019s Copper Box on May 18 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe doctors removed the knee guard and I have been advised to train with the team this week. So, we will see how I will react from the training. However, I am feeling much better and raring to go,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mvula said she was undergoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/specialised-training-for-joyce-mvula\/\">special training<\/a> sessions in her quest to stay in shape for the world showpiece that throws-off on July 12 to 21 in Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Queens Coach, Griffin Saenda Senior, recently said they hoped Mvula would recover on time to fill the void created following the injury of fellow shooter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/mwawi-kumwenda-out-of-world-cup\/\">Mwawi Kumwenda<\/a> of Melbourne Vixens, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Mvula has been in scintillating form after she was named Thunder\u2019s players\u2019 player of the year and coach\u2019s player of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawi national netball team\u2019s preparations for the World Cup have received a timely boost, as Manchester Thunder shooter Joyce Mvula has received an all-clear to train with the United Kingdom\u2019s main squad in an off-season drill. Mvula has been using a protective knee guard after sustaining an injury in a Vitality Superleague [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79694","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\/79694","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=79694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79699,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79694\/revisions\/79699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}