{"id":80577,"date":"2019-07-16T03:29:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=80577"},"modified":"2019-07-16T03:29:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:29:27","slug":"tabitha-chawinga-outshines-kgatlana-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/16\/tabitha-chawinga-outshines-kgatlana-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabitha Chawinga outshines Kgatlana in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malawi national women\u2019s football team Captain, Tabitha Chawinga, was on target as her Chinese Women\u2019s Super League side Jiangsu Sunning defeated Beijing Phoenix 3-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix are South Africa national women\u2019s football team star Thembi Kgatlana\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Kgatlana is the current Caf Women\u2019s Footballer of the Year and plays in China alongside her compatriot Linda Motlhalo.<\/p>\n<p>Tabitha scored and provided an assist to help Sunning collect maximum points in the league opener whereas Kgatlana was also on target but ended on the losing side.<\/p>\n<p>The Malawian said she felt great after helping her team to collect maximum points.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe just need to maintain our form so that we win the league this season,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tabitha and Kgatlana are expected to miss the Cosafa Championship slated for July 31 to August 11 in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Tabitha has already won a double in China with her club in the new season after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/tabitha-chawinga-wins-chinese-cup\/\">clinching<\/a> the Chinese Women\u2019s Football Championship and FA Cup titles.<\/p>\n<p>She has so far scored 23 goals in 12 games and won two Golden Boot awards.<\/p>\n<p>Tabitha was also phenomenal last season after scoring 17 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Malawi national women\u2019s football team Captain, Tabitha Chawinga, was on target as her Chinese Women\u2019s Super League side Jiangsu Sunning defeated Beijing Phoenix 3-2 on Saturday. Phoenix are South Africa national women\u2019s football team star Thembi Kgatlana\u2019s team. Kgatlana is the current Caf Women\u2019s Footballer of the Year and plays in China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80577","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=80577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80581,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80577\/revisions\/80581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}