{"id":10793,"date":"2012-05-23T18:11:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T18:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=10793"},"modified":"2012-05-23T18:11:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T18:11:58","slug":"tnm-reaffirms-commitment-towards-promoting-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/23\/tnm-reaffirms-commitment-towards-promoting-football\/","title":{"rendered":"TNM reaffirms commitment towards promoting football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> TNM yesterday was expected to reaffirm its commitment towards developing football in the country when they announced an increment of Super League sponsorship from K60 million to K65 million.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tnm3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tnm3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tnm3\" width=\"211\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8001\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt does not get better as the mobile service providers have lived up to their motto of &#8216;always with you&#8217; by extending the duration of contract from the traditional three years to five years.<\/p>\n<p>The development means the TNM Super League sponsorship will run up to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Super League is entering the seventh season for the league under TNM sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>TNM was expected to announce the increment at Mount Soche Hotel on Tuesday evening as we went to press.<\/p>\n<p>TNM have sponsored the league for the past six seasons and they already announced that they would renew the contract during last season&#8217;s prize presentation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The sponsors said they decided to renew the sponsorship because they had been impressed with the administration of the league after three cornerstones of their conditions of sponsorship-good governance, hooliganism free and improved standards of play &#8211; were achieved.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012\/2013 TNM Super League rolls into action this weekend with defending champions Silver Strikers hosting Bullets FC at Silver Stadium in the official launch clash.<\/p>\n<p>Sulom general secretary Williams Banda said all was set for the 2011\/2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking forward to a glorious season as the country&#8217;s top flight league starts this weekend&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p>Banda said the sponsors had lined up several activities during the launch at Silver Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 26th May, 2012<\/p>\n<p>TNM Super League Relaunch 2012\/13 at Silver Stadium<\/p>\n<p>Silver Strikers v Big Bullets F.C at Silver Stadium<\/p>\n<p>Mighty Wanderers v Moyale at Kamuzu Stadium<\/p>\n<p>Red Lions v Blantyre United at ZACC Ground<\/p>\n<p>Sunday 27th May, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Escom United v Azam Tigers at Kamuzu Stadium<\/p>\n<p>Civo United at Blue Eagles at Civo Stadium<\/p>\n<p>Mafco F.C at Kabwafu F.C at Chitowe<\/p>\n<p>EPAC F.C at Kamuzu Barracks at Silver Stadium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TNM yesterday was expected to reaffirm its commitment towards developing football in the country when they announced an increment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[2425,340,258,1128,1401],"class_list":["post-10793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-footable","tag-lilongwe","tag-malawi","tag-soccer","tag-tnm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}