{"id":80747,"date":"2019-07-19T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=80747"},"modified":"2019-07-19T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:01:10","slug":"flames-drawn-against-uganda-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/19\/flames-drawn-against-uganda-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames drawn against Uganda, Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78577\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/meke-mwase-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/meke-mwase-1-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/meke-mwase-1-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/meke-mwase-1.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CONCENTRATING ON JOB AT HAND\u2014Mwase<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malawi national football team has been drawn in Group B of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers alongside Uganda and Bukina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the group will be winners of a preliminary round tie between Seychelles and South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>The draw took place in Cairo, Egypt, ahead of Friday\u2019s Afcon final between Algeria and Senegal.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames will start the campaign from the group stages as they were seeded.<\/p>\n<p>Group stage games will kick off in November this year.<\/p>\n<p>The draw may appear fair on paper but Uganda, who qualified for this year\u2019s Afcon finals, and Burkina Faso could be tough opponents for the Flames.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi were also paired against Burkina Faso on their way to qualifying for the 2010 Afcon finals in Angola.<\/p>\n<p>This would be Flames Coach Meck Mwase\u2019s real test after a fantastic performance during this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/flames-finish-cosafa-tourney-with-plate-final-loss\/\">Cosafa Cup<\/a> in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Mwase was not readily available for comment Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>But National Football Coaches Association General Secretary, Davie Mpima, described the draw as tough.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cNowadays, no team is a walkover. We should exercise caution. For us to do well, we should have thorough preparations,\u201d<\/em> Mpima said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Malawi national football team has been drawn in Group B of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers alongside Uganda and Bukina Faso. Completing the group will be winners of a preliminary round tie between Seychelles and South Sudan. The draw took place in Cairo, Egypt, ahead of Friday\u2019s Afcon final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":80752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80747","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\/80747","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=80747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80753,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80747\/revisions\/80753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}