{"id":80754,"date":"2019-07-19T11:15:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=80754"},"modified":"2019-07-19T11:15:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:15:40","slug":"big-bullets-set-to-hire-peter-mponda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/19\/big-bullets-set-to-hire-peter-mponda\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bullets set to hire Peter Mponda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Williams Gondwa: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/peter-mponda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13603 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/peter-mponda-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/peter-mponda-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/peter-mponda-610x332.jpg 610w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/peter-mponda.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>TNM Super League defending champions Nyasa Big Bullets are set to reinforce their coaching panel by hiring their former captain, Peter Mponda, as assistant to Callisto Pasuwa.<\/p>\n<p>The development follows Bullets\u2019 slump in form in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Chief administration officer for the People\u2019s Team, Albert Chigoga, said Mponda was one of the coaches the club approached to take up the role.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe spoke to a number of coaches in order to recruit an assistant to Callisto Pasuwa. Peter Mponda was just one of such coaches. We are finalising paperwork and will release a statement on the same,\u201d<\/em> Chigoga said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said the development would see Heston Munthali reverting to his role of strikers\u2019 trainer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cNothing has changed in terms of our technical panel, apart from the inclusion of the assistant coach. Heston was only acting as Pasuwa\u2019s assistant. He will continue as a technical panel member in his previous position,\u201d<\/em> Chigoga said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mponda asked for time to comment on the development, which could see him leaving his Southern Region Football Premier Division club, Wizards, to take up the role.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI will tell you my position once everything has been finalised but being given such an opportunity is an honour to me,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The former Black Leopards defender was fired alongside Belgian Ronny van Geneugden as Flames coaches earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>He also captained the team during the 2003-04 Caf Champions League campaign when they reached the knockout stages of the continental competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Williams Gondwa: TNM Super League defending champions Nyasa Big Bullets are set to reinforce their coaching panel by hiring their former captain, Peter Mponda, as assistant to Callisto Pasuwa. The development follows Bullets\u2019 slump in form in recent weeks. Chief administration officer for the People\u2019s Team, Albert Chigoga, said Mponda was one of the [&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-80754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80754","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=80754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80758,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80754\/revisions\/80758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}