{"id":8272,"date":"2012-03-31T15:27:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T15:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=8272"},"modified":"2012-03-31T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T15:27:47","slug":"malawi-teenager-mzava-set-for-monaco-trials-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/31\/malawi-teenager-mzava-set-for-monaco-trials-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi teenager Mzava set for Monaco trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/flames1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/flames1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"flames\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6269\" \/><\/a>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>Malawian teenage defender Limbikani Mzava, who is on the books of South Africa\u2019s Bloemfontein Celtic, has been earmarked for trials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[768,1951,258,379,380],"class_list":["post-8272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-flames","tag-goal","tag-malawi","tag-south-africa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8272","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=8272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}