Last Thursday, I enjoyed reading a piece by Mario Alec Antoine on his column ‘Throwback Thursday’ which he is running on Football Association of Malawi (FAM) website in which he is posting excerpts of his book on the history of Malawi football, which will be published in December 2018. He wrote about Jack ‘Africa’ Chamangwana, Malawi’s most […]
Malawi chess is gaining some respect following the recent exploits of Chiletso Chipanga after his emphatic performance in Livingstone, Zambia where he was crowned African Amateurs champion after winning eight out of eight rounds. The feat in Zambia earned him an automatic qualification for the World Amateurs in Cagliari, Italy from where he returned on […]
Abel Mwakilama’s sudden death at the tender under 20 age was so shocking to us all. The social media was awash with messages of sadness and total regret because most football fans had faith that very soon the lad would have made a difference to the senior Flames. One Facebook post that touched me was […]
Malawi national netball team has never beaten giants of world netball New Zealand but on Sunday the Queens stunned the Silver Ferns 57-53 at the Commonwealth Games being held at Gold Coast in Australia. It was a result that has embarrassed the Ferns prompting the media there to declare that the Queens have plunged the […]
Just a week after Malawi won a gold medal in chess through Chipanga Chiletso at the African Amateur Chess tournament that was held in Livingstone, Zambia, boxer Isaac Chilemba went on to win the WBC International Light Heavyweight title and the WBA Oceania Light Heavyweight title in Australia. He beat by points Blake Caparello. It’s […]
When Chipanga Chiletso started off for Livingstone, Zambia last week for the African Amateur Chess tournament nobody expected him to to go on and win it and he did in style by winning with one round to spare. His stunning performance so much impressed the chess fraternity that Chess Association of Malawi (Chessam) executive member, […]
For the first time in the history of Malawi football, teams that participated in the Airtel Top 8 received funds which Football Association of Malawi (FAM) raised from the media broadcasting rights and they shared 80 percent of the over MK8.6 million that was raised from the total of 11 games that were played. Following […]
The social media is awash of derisive comments targeted at Master Security and Mighty Wanderers following their embarrassing performance in the Confederation of African Football (CAF) club championship over the weekend. Masters Security lost 0-5 to Petro Atletico of Angola on Saturday in the preliminary of the Caf Confederation Cup while the Nomads went down 0-4 in Democratic Republic of […]
Mighty Be Forward Wanderers fans were in a scare when rumours spread widely that they were considering pulling out the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Champions League because they could not raise funds for their participation. Fortunately, it was just a rumour though some impeccable sources confirmed on condition of anonymity that indeed there was […]
The social media is awash with criticisms over government’s recent action to fulfil its promise to build excellent sports stadia, saying its priorities are upside down because the country needs far much more than sports stadia. Someone argued that instead of giving Mzimba a sports stadium why not swap it for the Jenda-Edingeni road? Or […]
History has been made from African football. Former great player George Oppong Weah has been sworn in as the 24th president of the Republic of Liberia. Weah was named as a FIFA World Player of the Year in 1995 — becoming the first and to date only African player to win this award. He was also named […]
Malawi football has always been that of amateur level ever since and several efforts to turn it into commercial have always been thwarted in their infancy but we can pat the back of Football Association of Malawi (FAM) for what it has done on the second edition of Airtel Top 8 in the just ended […]
Way back in September, I wrote a piece on this column my son Tupochele and I were watching this year’s Cosafa Women’s Football Championship that took place in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe when I got a very good question from my son as we watched the group qualifying round match between Malawi and Zambia. He had asked […]
Southern Region Chess League has successfully hosted its third edition of its special juniors’ tournament called the Finesse Schools’ Chess Championship that targets to inspire primary and secondary schools students is to inspire youths to take the sport seriously and aim to become the best. This tournament is sponsored by Malawi Chess Association (Chessam) former […]
Little was known about French coach Herve Renard until he took charge of Zambia and led them to win their first-ever Nations Cup title in 2012 during the finals co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. It was a fairly tale run for the Chipolopolos in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea and it hadn’t been easy sailing […]
For the good of the glamour that the Malawi national Netball team exudes on the international stage, it’s good news to hear that the Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) has acted professionally by recalling Mwawi Kumwenda to the squad after she was dropped from the team that travelled to Australia for the 2017 Fast5 tournament. […]
The glamour that surrounds the Malawi national netball team was built over many years and it was former players like Mary Waya, Peace Chawinga, Connis Mhone and others that developed a team which created storm at tournaments they participated in. The Queens became such a famous team even though they were not able to beat […]
The race for the 2017 TNM Super League is really tight for top contenders, leaders Mighty Be Forward Wanderers, runners-up Silver Strikers and third-placed Nyasa Big Bullets with 4th-placed Blue Eagles and 5th-placed Moyale Barracks lurking by. Wanderers, at 44 points, lead with six points ahead of Silver and Bullets tie on 38 points. The […]