Category: Sports

Chilima welcoming The Queens Baton at Chileka Airport By Lydia Maganga, MANA Vice-President Saulos Chilima has urged Malawi Olympic family to find solutions to the country’s perennial failure to win medals at international tournaments. Speaking when he joined the sports fraternity to welcome Commonwealth Games’ Queen’s Baton for its Relay in Malawi, Chilima said it was time to get serious and go back to the drawing table to try and take a different approach so that the country’s athletes…

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The controversial Jomo Osman, who is also Councilor for Bangwe Nthandizi * Club fined K25,000 for an offence only committed by the individual By Duncan Mlanjira Ntopwa Football Club has been found guilty of the misconduct regulation of failing to control the actions of its supporters, players and officials and fined K25,000 for an offence committed by the team’s owner and technical director, Isaac Jomo Osman — who was found guilty of assaulting a referee during his team’s official…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Football Association of Malawi (FAM) president Walter Nyamilandu did some extraordinary in celebrating his 50th birthday on Thursday by treating people who live off each day at the waste dumpsite along Zomba Road to a sumptuous lunch. He went on to post the event on his Facebook page in which he said: “A day well spent as I celebrated my 50th birthday with the people that live on scraps and garbage at the dump yard (kuntaya)….

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Resource mobilisation taskforce chairperson Justice Alide (left) receives the support from Airtel MD Kamoto  By Duncan Mlanjira Having already supported Football Association of Malawi’s ‘Kuipatsa Flames Moto’ funds mobilization campaign through the golf tournament held last month as well as the VIP fundraising dinner, Airtel Malawi Plc has added a further K20 million towards the cause. Airtel Malawi, sponsors of the end of the league season tournament — the Airtel Top 8 — committed K2.5 million each for the…

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The Silver won on Sunday * Won the other on October 24 at the North East Open Championships in Newcastle City * He clinched gold on October 17 at the Ultimate Open Championships at Metrodome Leisure centre in Barnsley By Duncan Mlanjira Malawian UK-based taekwondo expert, Sergeant Yamikani Guba — who is with the British military — won a silver medal on Sunday at British National Taekwondo Championships held at the Copper Box Arena Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park —…

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Kamoto (right) and Nyamilandu pose besides the trophy and the kits for the teams * ‘Zamadolo’ theme is to inspire players to have a feeling that they’re indeed the stars of soccer in Malawi * Season Four opener is between Nyasa Big Bullets and MAFCO FC at Kamuzu Stadium on Saturday * Followed by a second match between Mighty Wanderers and Moyale Barracks at the same venue the following day By Victor Singano Jnr Sponsors, Airtel Malawi Plc on Thursday…

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Maravi Express The Airtel Top 8 Season Four kicks off next week with an opening  game between Nyasa Big Bullets and MAFCO FC at Kamuzu Stadium on November 6 followed by the second between Mighty Wanderers and Moyale Barracks at the same venue the following day. Defending champions Silver Strikers will begin their title defense with a home tie against TN Stars at Nankhaka Stadium on November 13 before CIVO and Karonga United wrapping up the quarterfinal first leg…

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Bingu National Stadium * CAF barred FAM from hosting the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup qualifiers at Bingu Stadium * Until outstanding issues noted in previous inspections have been addressed * However, the stadium was open for other international matches like CAF Champions League and Women’s AFCON qualifiers * It has now been closed after the Scorchers match on Wednesday against Zambia in 2022 AFCON qualifiers By Duncan Mlanjira Football Association of Malawi (FAM) announced on Wednesday that Bingu…

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