{"id":80357,"date":"2019-07-11T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T01:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=80357"},"modified":"2019-07-11T03:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T01:54:32","slug":"no-luck-for-lucky-malata-peter-cholopi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/11\/no-luck-for-lucky-malata-peter-cholopi\/","title":{"rendered":"No luck for Lucky Malata, Peter Cholopi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80361\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/peter-cholopi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80361\" src=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/peter-cholopi-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/peter-cholopi-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/peter-cholopi.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BACK HOME\u2014Cholopi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Be Forward Wanderers defenders Peter Cholopi and Lucky Malata returned from South Africa on Sunday after failing <a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/peter-cholopi-lucky-malata-free-to-see-free-state-stars\/\">trials<\/a> at National First Division side, Free State Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Wanderers Chairperson, Gift Mkandawire, said they expected the two to start training with their counterparts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThey were not taken on board by Free State Stars. We, however, thank Free State Stars for identifying them as potential talent and trying them out. We believe other opportunities would open up in future,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mkandawire said it was not automatic that the pair would be recalled into the starting line-up.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cLooking at the team\u2019s performance, they have to fight for their spaces in the team. This is healthy for the team as it raises competition. We are up for the TNM Super League title challenge,\u201d <\/em>he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWanderers is now on fire. Our players and our technical gurus of Bob [Mpinganjira], Oscar [Kaunda] and Albert [Mpinganjira] are indisputably the best in the league.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cholopi declined to take questions but referred <em>The Daily Times <\/em>to former Flames and Stars coach, Kinnah Phiri.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cKinnah facilitated the trials; so, we will hear from him,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kinnah said he was in a meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Be Forward Wanderers defenders Peter Cholopi and Lucky Malata returned from South Africa on Sunday after failing trials at National First Division side, Free State Stars. Wanderers Chairperson, Gift Mkandawire, said they expected the two to start training with their counterparts. \u201cThey were not taken on board by Free State Stars. We, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80357","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\/80357","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=80357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80372,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80357\/revisions\/80372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}