Malawi govt to construct football, netball academies
President Peter Mutharika has promised to construct a football academy and netball academy to act as base for exporting players to Europe and the rest of the world.
Mutharika made the promise Friday at Bingu International ConventionCentre (BICC) in Lilongwe during the Youth Innovation Awards.
The President disclosed that a big investor has already expressed interest to do this for the country.
“We are discussing with a big organization to build a Youth Centre in the country,” Mutharika explained.
He said government is providing more sports opportunities to the youth in the country because sports improve physical wellbeing of many people.
“We all love sports. We are building stadiums in every district and for big football clubs such as Nyasa Big Bullets and Be Forward Wanderers will have their stadiums too,” the Malawi leader pointed out.
Minister of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development, Grace Chiumia said the President has demonstrated total love for the youth of the country by providing young people with necessary support.
She added that Malawians need to support Mutharika in his role as Global champions for the youth in order to help them realize their dreams and inspirations.
“The President has always encouraged us to keep trying things in order to excel. Everything is possible and it worth trying to do it,” the Minister said.
Government has constructed stadiums in Mulanje, Mangochi, Kasungu, Rumphi, Karonga while in Ntcheu and Zomba the construction of their stadiums is in progress.
The stadiums have hosted TNM Super League and Cup matches where residents have been able to sample the country’s football cream from their home yard.
The country has Bingu, Civo, Silver stadiums and Nankhaka ground in Lilongwe, in Blantyre there is Kamuzu stadium and Chiwembe ground and Mzuzu stadium in Mzuzu.
Additional to this there is Kalulu stadium in Nchalo in Chikwawa and Chitowe stadium in Dwangwa, Nkhotakota.
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Copycat from what Chilima said about developing football by sending young Malawian players to European clubs after developing them locally. This man doesn’t have original ideas to help the country. All this time he had the opportunity to develop sport through sporting associations but he was busy sharing Malawi’s limited wealth with his party friends and now that he needs votes,he is even saying things that he knows he can’t accomplish. Mutharika is not a sporting person, Chilima is.
Kodi paja akuti povota tisadzayang’ane kuti wina akumvetsa chisoni nkhope yake??? Zikatero awina ujayu
LETS WAIT FOR THE NATIONAL STRATEGY MASTER PLAN, SHORT TERM & LONG TERM, projects of national importance not this rubbish of presidents imposing projects on the people eg to build stadiums for bullets and noma and mr president please engadge all the big companies to do CSR they are making billions but can not contribute to CSR, like building sports facilities, schools & hospitals, dpp what a useless govt ever, its time to go WE NEED SERIOUS GOVT NOW
ASIYENI AGOGOWO AMANGE KOMA SIKUTI TIWAVOTERA KWINAKU NDIKWAKUTI AKUTISANZIKA, APM NDI ANZAKE NDI ANTHU OGANIZA MOPEREWERA NDI MOPUSA AKUNIZA KUTI AKUWAUZA ANA
You promised similar things in 2014 and in this year 2019 we can see that you have failed. You just have to go
There are much greater priorities, Mr President. First things first, please. We need medicine, decent housing, clean water, uninterrupted power supply, good basic education, food availability, etc etc. Sports academies may promote better sportsmen and women, but they don’t win elections!
With all due respect, this man said “I will develop Malawi to European and American levels”. So why does he now wants to send Malawians to Europe and rest of the world? What happened to the development master plan? Why contradiction? Vote, vote, vote !
he forgot he said that due to old age
Nthawi alibe yatha
Sir, we want education not stadium
What rubbish- stadium, stadiums, stadiumssss!