Mighty Wanderers issued a statement of intent that they would put a great fight in their TNM Super League title campaign this season by beating tough opponents Moyale Barracks 3-2 on Saturday in Blantyre. This was a first game of the league season for 2012/2013. It was the manner of the win at Kamuzu Stadium […]
Silver Strikers opened their TNM Super League title defence with a resounding 4-0 victory against Big Bullets in a match played at Silver Stadium in Lilongwe on Saturday. Bullets were in awful form and their day was spoiled in the opening 10 minutes when their captain Fischer Kondowe was stretched off the field of play […]
Malawians will have to dig deeper into their pockets if they want to watch the Flames home games in the World Cup and African Cup of Nations qualifiers encounters’, as the Football Association of Malawi ( FAM) has hiked gate charges. Speaking to members of the press at Chiwembe Technical Centre in Blantyre, FAM’s Commercial […]
Malawi Olympic Committee President Oscar Kanjala organised a Sports Writers Association of Malawi workshop at Malawi Institute of Tourism in the commercial city of Malawi, Blantyre to enlighten sports journalists on the rules and techniques when covering Olympic Games ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games. President of Malawi Olympic Committee, Oscar Kanjala emphasized that […]
Boxing promoter Stephen Mawezi Msiska of Mawezi Freight Handlers, who sponsored the international women’s World Boxing Forum/Africa (WBF) championship, has advised the Malawi Boxing Association (MABA) to change its attitude towards boxers and the promoters if the sport is to develop in the country. Mawezi said this following the questioning by MABA about the credibility […]
Malawi national team, the Flames, coach Kinnah Phiri has released his 20-man squad scheduled to leave for Tanzania on Thursday, May 24 before proceeding to Kenya for the 2014 World Cup qualifier against Harambe Stars at Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani. The Flames will play two friendly matches in Tanzania to prepare for the Kenya’s crucial […]
Telecom Networks Malawi (TNM) have lived up to their motto, ‘always with you’ by pumping in a whooping of K65 million for five season towards the sponsorship of the country’s top flight league starting from the 2012-2013 season. Revealing the good news on Tuesday evening at Mount Soche Hotel in the commercial city of Malawi, […]
In the quest to prepare for the three crucial 2014 World Cup and 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, Flames coach Kinnah Phiri has asked England trainer Andy Dell to help him in drilling the his charges. In an interview with Nyasa Times, the Flames mentor said that he persuaded Dell to help them train […]
Malawi’s international striker Russell Mwafulirwa attempted to commit suicide over marriage crisis according to media reports from South Africa. The Sunday World reported that Mwafulirwa allegedly drove into the brick wall of a top notch Joburg golf estate in South Africa opposite his home on Thursday night. “Mwafulirwa, who had a series of violent matches […]
President Joyce Banda on Sunday hosted a luncheon with the Malawi national netball team (Queens) who recently defended the Africa Netball Championship in Tanzania. During a ceremony held at Mtunthama State House in the capital city Lilongwe, President Banda donated K10 million to the team and gave K100,000 each to the players in the squad […]
Malawi national team’s foreign –based players have started jetting in the country to join Flames training camp ahead of next month’s 2014 World Cup and 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. Malawi will face Kenya on June 2 in a World Cup qualifier in Nairobi. They follow this with hosting Nigeria at Kamuzu Stadium the […]
President Joyce Banda on Sunday gave Malawi’s only female boxing pugilist Agness Mtimaukanena half a million Kwacha after making the nation proud when she recently won the light middleweight World Boxing Federation (WBF) belt. Mtimaukanena, 20, outsmarted Kenyan Susan Adezo to win the title. Meeting President Joyce Banda at the official Mtunthama State House in the capital […]
Malawians from Saturday night have been dominating their posts on the social networking sites with news of Chelsea FC winning its first ever European Cup in a dramatic penalty shoot-out. The support base of Chelsea in Malawi is not big comparing to English teams like Liverpool,, Manchester and Arsenal. But it has been growing in […]
Former Sports Minister Symon Vuwa Kaunda has confessed he was ‘stupid;’ in recommending that the Chinese planned new sports stadium be snatched from Lilongwe and given to commercial city of Blantyre. Malawi sought assistance from the Chinese Government for the construction of the new stadium earmarked for the central region and Parliament already approved the plans […]
Deputy Minister of Transport and Public Works and director of Alice Gwengwe Foundation Girls School, Sosten Gwengwe has urged students at the institution to take sports seriously to develop talent and character. Gwengwe said apart from academic schoolwork designed to test aptitudes and develop other skills crucial for success in future careers and life in general, sports can […]
Sponsor of newly crowned champions of Central Region Women`s Football League DD Sunshine senior, David Dube, has unveiled ambitious plans to join Confederation of African Football (CAF) Champions League. DD Senior, who claimed many titles including Standard Bank and Presidential Initiative on Sports, has relatively shown interest to showcase in major league. But in interview […]
Malawi coach Kinnah Phiri has released a 16-man foreign legion cheduled to go into camp in readiness of three crucial encounters in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers and Africa Cup of Nations in June. The Flames will take on Kenya and Nigeria in the World Cup qualifiers before facing Chad in the second leg of […]
Arguably, the just concluded English Premier League (EPL) did not have anything to do with the deaths of young Malawians over the weekend. One died after being knifed by a team mate and another after being badly beaten by marauding students – both issues closely related to the world’s greatest game, soccer! As Argentinian Carlos […]