{"id":8253,"date":"2012-03-30T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=8253"},"modified":"2012-03-30T16:13:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:13:40","slug":"malawi-teenager-mzava-set-for-monaco-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/30\/malawi-teenager-mzava-set-for-monaco-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi teenager Mzava set for Monaco trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/141850hp2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/141850hp2-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"141850hp2\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The defender will be taking part in trials in France with a view to making a move to Europe<\/h2>\n<p>Malawian teenage defender Limbikani Mzava, who is on the books of South Africa\u2019s Bloemfontein Celtic, has been earmarked for trials at French Ligi 1 side, Monaco next month.<\/p>\n<p>Mzava\u2019s trials with Monaco have been facilitated by his Paris-based South African agent, Walter Mokoena, according to Malawi press reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonaco is a big club and I hope to impress,\u201d the 18-year-old told Malawi\u2019s daily newspaper, The Nation.<\/p>\n<p>The former Under-17 captain returns to Europe after having successful trials with Hapoel Telaviv in January but the deal fell through following disagreements between the Israeli side and Cletic over a transfer fee.<\/p>\n<p>Celtic signed the young defender last year from Malawi side, Escom United on athree-year contract but never registered him as he was the still a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Mzava has now attained the required age of 18 but Celtic have still not registered him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defender will be taking part in trials in France with a view to making a move to Europe Malawian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[1946,378,380],"class_list":["post-8253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-defender","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253","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=8253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/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=8253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}