By Duncan Mlanjira South Sudan ?? beat Seychelles ?? 1-0 in last week’s Preliminary Round’s second leg to qualify for the group stages by 3-1 on aggregate having won 2-0 in the first encounnter. They join Malawi ??, Burkina Faso ?? and Uganda ?? in Group B whose back to back Match 1 and 2 fixtures are set for week of November 11-19. The other match days are up in 2010, first on the week of August 31 to September…
By COSAFA Media Group Zambia became the second country, after South Africa, to lift the men’s Confederation of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) Under-17 Championship after a 2-0 victory over Mozambique in Sunday’s final played at the Mpira Stadium in Blantyre. They first won the gold medal in 2017 and Sunday’s match was also as deserved as they proved the most complete on the squads on display. Zambia scored 20 goals in their five games at the tournament, an…
By CAFonline Tanzanian ?? football seems to be on the rise as they were the first team to reach the Total African Nations Championship (CHAN) for their second appearance just a few months after also making their second participation in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. They shocked hosts Sudan ?? 2-1 at El Merreikh Stadium in Omdurman on Friday night taking advantage of the away goals’ rule with the aggregate score tied at 2-2, after Sudan ?? had…
By Duncan Mlanjira Football Association (FAM) Competitions & Communications Director Gonezgani Zakazaka says the local governing football body is galvanized to become more professional after COSAFA Media Group made a special mention in its report that FAM has an excellent working relationship with the Malawi media. As part of the COSAFA Under-17 legacy, a workshop for practicing journalists was organized in conjunction Football Journalists Association and FAM held at Mpira Village in Blantyre where all the U-17 games were…
By Maravi Express Council for Southern Africa Football Association (COSAFA) has concluded a four-day Administration and Management course at Mpira Village in Blantyre, a seminar which was part of the COSAFA U-17 Youth Championship Legacy. It attracted over 30 local-based football administrators affiliated to the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) and the closing ceremony was presided over by FAM president Walter Nyamilandu, COSAFA president Phillip Chiyangwa and general secretary Sue Destombes. The three challenged the administrators to put into…
By Duncan Mlanjira Retired basketball players now Inkosi Mzikubola Jere from Mzimba is facilitating the construction of basketball court for his subjects through the assistance he gets from the US National Basketball Association (NBA). The Inkosi disclosed this when he presided as guest of honour during the launch of the National Bank of Malawi on Saturday at the Polytechnic in Blantyre. He was specially considered because of his passion for the game through what he is doing for basketball…
By Duncan Mlanjira Stewart Kambewa, the cyclist has done several phenomenal things but the climax, this time around is worthy mentioning — not just that he has wedded his sweetheart Norah, but he was part of the bridal convoy involving his dear fellow cyclists. Kambewa took off his wedding jacket, remained with the waist coat and joined his fellow cyclists on the bridal convoy on the streets of Blantyre. It cannot get better than that for the man who…
By Duncan Mlanjira One athlete Jafali Jossam, representing Mulanje Athletic Club that is managed by Malawi’s ultra race expert Edson Kumwamba, managed to be on the winners podium by clinching third place in Sunday’s Blantyre City Marathon in a time of 2:34:37hrs. This made Kumwamba very satisfied as it was his first-ever 42.2km marathon and he was just shy by 5:01 minutes away from the champion, Mphatso Nadolo, who clocked 2:29:38. Mulanje had six athletes and for the omen…
By Duncan Mlanjira Malawian Taekwondo athlete, Yamikani Guba, who is serving in the British Army, has once more won the silver medal just after 11 days of achieving the same feat at the London International Open. This time around the competition was held at the National Taekwondo Club Championship on Sunday in Nottingham. He was representing the British Army Taekwondo team in the heavyweight category +87kgs which had four competitors. “I feel so good because I am building up…
By Duncan Mlanjira Sunday’s Blantyre City Marathon has identified a new winner in Zomba-based Mphatso Nadolo but it seems the performance of long distance runners is going down as Nadolo was far from breaking the 42.195km course’s 16-year-old record of 2:18:40hrs, set by veteran Henry Moyo in 2003. He clocked 2:29:38 and it was not even his personal best because last year, in his maiden marathon, he was third in 2:28:42. Last year’s winner, Moyale Barracks soldier Ndacha Nchelenje,…