{"id":10811,"date":"2012-05-24T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T09:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=10811"},"modified":"2012-05-24T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T09:47:33","slug":"flames-peter-mponda-and-other-four-key-players-missing-for-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/24\/flames-peter-mponda-and-other-four-key-players-missing-for-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames’ Peter Mponda and other four key players missing for qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malawi captain Peter Mponda and four others key players are missing from the Flames’ squad for their World Cup qualifiers against Kenya and Nigeria next month.
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No in Flames Squad; Peter Mponda<\/p><\/div>
\nMponda and midfielder Tawonga Chimodzi will remain with their South African club Santos, who are battling relegation from the top flight.<\/p>\n

Midfielder Robert Ng’ambi is ill, while defenderes Harry Nyirenda and Elvis Kafoteka are out with injury.<\/p>\n

Coach Kinnah Phiri also has injury doubts over striker Chiukepo Msowoya.<\/p>\n

The squad will travel to Tanzania for two matches in the build up to their qualifiers and coach Phiri is optimistic despite the set-backs.<\/p>\n

“I travelled to China two weeks ago with a squad of local players, who did not disappoint – and I have all the confidence that they will pull off a surprise in Kenya,” the coach said.<\/p>\n

“The two friendlies in Tanzania will give me a good assessment of the team and provide and insight into how east African teams play.”<\/p>\n

As well as their World Cup qualifiers, Malawi face the second leg of their Africa Cup of Nations preliminary tie with Chad in June.<\/p>\n

Chad lead the tie 3-2 from the first leg but the second leg will be played in Blantyre. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malawi captain Peter Mponda and four others key players are missing from the Flames’ squad for their World Cup qualifiers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[768,780,1644,258,968,2426,2427],"class_list":["post-10811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-flames","tag-kenya","tag-kinna-phiri","tag-malawi","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-mponda","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811","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=10811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811\/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=10811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}