{"id":8852,"date":"2015-09-17T10:41:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T10:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=8852"},"modified":"2015-09-17T10:41:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T10:41:34","slug":"defender-yamikani-fodya-eyes-scoring-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/09\/17\/defender-yamikani-fodya-eyes-scoring-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Defender Yamikani Fodya eyes scoring record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Bullets and Flames left-back, Yamikani Fodya, has revealed that he wants to break a record by competing with the strikers in chasing the TNM Super League Golden Boot Award.<\/p>\n<p>Fodya scored with his fourth free-kick on Saturday when Bullets beat Mafco 1-0 at Chitowe Stadium in Dwangwa where the sponsors, TNM and the Super League of Malawi (Sulom) re-launched the league\u2019s second round.<\/p>\n<p>Fodya\u2019s goal helped the People\u2019s Team open a nine point gap from their archrivals, Be Forward Wanderers, who lost 1-0 to Lilongwe sleeping giants, Civo United.<\/p>\n<p>Innocent Bokosi of Red Lions is the leadig scorer with 10 followed by nine goals from Green Harawa of Silver Strikers.<\/p>\n<p>Fodya, who was voted the league\u2019s Best Defender in 2010, believes that he can be one of the contenders for the Golden Boot award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy Job is to stop strikers from scoring, but despite that I am also practising every day on scoring. I also scored through a free-kick when we played Civo,Dedza Young Soccer Stars and Silver Strikers in the first round,\u201d Fodya said.<\/p>\n<p>Defenders of the 1970s and 80 such as Young Chimodzi and Jack Chamangwana also used to weigh in their defensive duties with goals for club and country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Bullets and Flames left-back, Yamikani Fodya, has revealed that he wants to break a record by competing with the strikers in chasing the TNM Super League Golden Boot Award. Fodya scored with his fourth free-kick on Saturday when Bullets beat Mafco 1-0 at Chitowe Stadium in Dwangwa where the sponsors, TNM and the Super [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8852","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\/8852","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=8852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8854,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions\/8854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}