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LIVERPOOL-(MaraviPost)-The Malawi national netball team on Sunday finished top six at the Netball World Cup after losing 68-50 in fifth position play-offs against Jamaica in Liverpool, England.
The Queens had gone to the tournament on ninth position in International Netball Federation (INF) rankings.
It was great relief for Malawi to battle for top six finish, a target which they had set to achieve.
Speaking on Sky Sports, Queens’ assistant coach Whyte Mlilima said they faced “height disadvantage” against Sunshine Girls from Jamaica.
Coach Mlilima said the Queens will build up from the top six finish and get a strong team, hoping government will bankroll them to have more international matches.
“We need to play more international matches not only against African teams . We need to build a recognizable strong team,” he said.
“We will go and do our home work,” he said.
Asked by Sky Sports what was the highlight of the tournament, Mlilima said it was the defeat of hosts England to fail to reach the finals.
New Zealand go on to face holders Australia in Sunday’s final for a sixth consecutive tournament.
England faced South Africa in the bronze medal match.
Malawi lost only to the two finalists and Jamaica but went on to beat Barbados, Singapore, Zimbabwe, Northern Ireland and Uganda, a team that usurped Malawi’s position six on International Netball Federation rankings.
Malawi Queens have been a proud of the nation over the years for splendid performance.
LIVERPOOL-(MaraviPost)-The Malawi Queens is craving for the fifth-place playoff at the Netball World Cup today Sunday when they play against Jamaica after both teams on Friday won their placement matches at the ongoing 2019 Netball World Cup in Liverpool, England.
The Queens defeated Uganda 55-44 while Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls beat Zimbabwe 77-47 at the M&S Bank Arena.
Queens’ assistant coach Whyte Mlilima said with victory against Uganda, the Malawi Queens, who have dropped three steps to ninth on the latest International Netball Federation (INF) World Rankings, can be guaranteed an overall top-six finish.
Zimbabwe and Uganda will meet in the seventh-place playoff on the same day.
Malawi took advantage of early Ugandan nerves, racing into a 4-0 lead as Joyce Mvula wasted no time in finding her scoring touch.
Rachael Nanyonga was the first to register for Uganda, however there was no knocking Mvula from her stride, and when Lilian Ajio’s pass went astray, Malawi extended their lead to five.
Jane Chimaliro got in on the scoring act to take the score to 11-6, before, in the opposite circle, Peace Proscovia was penalised for footwork.
She soon made amends though, and Uganda cut the deficit to just three as they began to compete more effectively.
Their momentum was halted when Nanyonga took too long on the ball and another overthrown pass gave Malawi opportunity to extend the lead, but an interception allowed Uganda to narrow to 12-9 at the quarter break.
More Ugandan wastefulness at the start of the second quarter was punished, as the lead went out to five. Malawi then looked to have returned the favour, when untidy passing presented Uganda with the ball, but they were unable to capitalise.
Mvula then scored her 15th – and Malawi’s 20th – goal of the game to take the lead out to 20-14, as Malawi were able to exploit the space behind Uganda’s mid-court players.
Malawi ended the half as they had started, firing on all cylinders to hold a 27-19 advantage at the break.
Mary Nuba Cholock stepped into the Uganda attack for the second half, and her presence made a difference immediately as she registered two early strikes.
An enormous leap by Proscovia, now playing goal attack, helped Uganda pull back to 32-27, and the crowd inside the M&S Bank Arena suggested that a comeback could be on.
However this hope was dampened by more loose possession from the She Cranes.
Cholock and Proscovia were still proving a potent combination, but Mvula was equally effectively at the other end, landing the final goal of the quarter to make the score 41-35.
Uganda wasted their first centre pass of the fourth and the deficit was back to seven. Cholock was then penalised, and a long pass gave Mvula the opportunity to extend the lead to 43-36.
A stretching interception from Stella Oyella at centre should have led to the margin being reduced, but once again the opportunity went begging.
Chimaliro got in among the goals for Malawi as time began to run out for the Ugandans, as she took the Queens’ lead out to 49-41.
Mvula took the lead into double figures, and while Nanyonga registered the game’s final goal, the celebrations on the final whistle belonged to Malawi.
Malawi Queens have been the pride of the nation over the years.
BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-In-form Be Forward Wanderers striker,Babatunde Adepojuhas won people’s approval as the most outstanding player for the month of June in the country’s top league, the TNM Super League.
Babatude who emerged winner through a voting process in the TNM’s PokopokondiZampira promotion, amassed1,062votes to beat other four contestants to the monthly prize. He takes home K100,000 from TNM PLC, the elite league Sponsors.
Nyasa Big Bullet’s Peter Banda came second with 518 while Christopher Mtambo of SavendaChitipa was on third with 201 votes. MiciumMhone of Blue Eaglesand MisheckSelemani of Karonga United shared fourth and fifth positions with 89 and 52 votes respectively.
TNM PLC Public Relations and Sponsorship Manager, LimbaniNsapato,said the Player of the Month Award is an additional incentive to both fans and clubs and promotes active engagement of the soccer fans.
He said TNM remains committed to creating a platform for active engagement of soccer fans in addition to the other activities such as the predict-and-win with Zampira Promotion.
“The Fans Player of the Month award underscores this commitment. Now there will be something for everyone. As TNM, we will continue to innovate to ensure that soccer fans, players and clubs all have a reason to smile every season,” he said.
To come up with the winner, TNM in partnership with league managers, Super League of Malawi (SULOM) comes up with a shortlist of five outstanding players from which fans vote for their favourite one by dialing *1515# and choose ‘Player of the Month”.
Every week TNM gives out K50,000 cash to 3 winners and K1,000 Airtime to 50 winners while ‘Daily Question’ winner gets K100, 000 and three K100,000 monthly prizes.
This year, courtesy of Zampira promotion, three lucky winners will fly to Spain in September to watch a Real Madrid game. Grand winner will cart home K2 million and the first and second runner up will go away with a motorbike and plasma screen respectively.
To participate in the promotion, subscribers are required to send an SMS of their prediction of the featured games to 1515 or dial *1515# and select the prediction option. The promotion draws are being conducted on a weekly and monthly interval before the grand draw which will happen in December.
TNM’s Marketing Manager presents a sysmbolic cheque to Babatunde
Blantyre, 17th July: In-form Be Forward Nigerian Wanderers striker, Babatunde Adepoju has won people’s approval as the most outstanding player for the month of June in the country’s top league, the TNM Super League.
Babatude who emerged winner through a voting process in the TNM’s Pokopoko ndi Zampira promotion, amassed 1,062 votes to beat other four contestants to the monthly prize. He takes home K100,000 from TNM PLC, the elite league Sponsors.
Nyasa Big Bullet’s Peter Banda came second with 518 while Christopher Mtambo of Savenda Chitipa was on third with 201 votes. Micium Mhone of Blue Eagles and Misheck Selemani of Karonga United shared fourth and fifth positions with 89 and 52 votes respectively.
TNM PLC Public Relations and Sponsorship Manager, Limbani Nsapato, said the Player of the Month Award is an additional incentive to both fans and clubs and promotes active engagement of the soccer fans.
He said TNM remains committed to creating a platform for active engagement of soccer fans in addition to the other activities such as the predict-and-win with Zampira Promotion.
“The Fans Player of the Month award underscores this commitment. Now there will be something for everyone. As TNM, we will continue to innovate to ensure that soccer fans, players and clubs all have a reason to smile every season,” he said.
To come up with the winner, TNM in partnership with league managers, Super League of Malawi (SULOM) comes up with a shortlist of five outstanding players from which fans vote for their favourite one by dialing *1515# and choose ‘Player of the Month”.
Every week TNM gives out K50,000 cash to 3 winners and K1,000 Airtime to 50 winners while ‘Daily Question’ winner gets K100, 000 and three K100,000 monthly prizes.
This year, courtesy of Zampira promotion, three lucky winners will fly to Spain in September to watch a Real Madrid game. Grand winner will cart home K2 million and the first and second runner up will go away with a motorbike and plasma screen respectively.
To participate in the promotion, subscribers are required to send an SMS of their prediction of the featured games to 1515 or dial *1515# and select the prediction option. The promotion draws are being conducted on a weekly and monthly interval before the grand draw which
LIVERPOOL-(MaraviPost)-ZIMBABWE suffered their third defeat in five outings at the ongoing Netball World Cup after going down 43-59 to Malawi in an All-African Group F match at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England.
Malawi’s victory meant they secured third place in Group F ahead of the Gems, who have now won two and lost three of the matches they have played at the global showpiece.
The Gems, whose impressive performances despite their limited resources have captured the imagination of the whole nation and beyond, registered victories over Sri Lanka and Barbados while their losses came against reigning World Champions Australia, New Zealand and Malawi.
Despite enjoying tremendous support, Zimbabwe, ranked 13th in the world, were always going to be second favourites against the 9th ranked Malawians in what was the first ever World Cup meeting between the sides.
In the end, the Malawi Queens proved a lot stronger as they continued their impressive start to the tournament so far to give themselves a real chance of securing a top six finish.
It was the Zimbabweans who started the better side, taking advantage of what was a scrappy start to the game to establish a 4-1 lead.
But Malawi, led by Joyce Mvula and Jane Chimaliro, soon recovered to lead 12-8 at the end of the first quarter.
Zimbabwe coach Lloyd Makunde brought on the talismanic Pauline Jani for the second quarter, and she made a positive impact, scoring with her first three attempts early on in the quarter.
The experienced Malawians still managed to stretch their lead to 10 points (22-12) midway through the quarter, and despite a mini Zimbabwean revival spurred by their passionate support, the margin stayed consistent at half time, with Malawi going in 28-18 up.
Malawi took that momentum into the third quarter, scoring the first seven goals of the segment while Joice Takaidza registered Zimbabwe’s first goal of the quarter six minutes into the quarter.
The Zimbabwe Gems appeared to come back into the game with their best performance in the second half of the quarter, eventually, only losing it by four.
However, Malawi’s overall lead was growing, and was out to 43-29 by the end of the third period.
The final quarter was to prove the tightest of the game, as Zimbabwe put together an impressive finish, but Malawi had done more than enough to sew up victory and go into the play-off and placing games with real confidence.
Malawi will now play the fourth-placed finishers in Group G to determine who will play-off for fifth place while Zimbabwe will play the winner between Uganda and Jamaica in the playoff for seventh place
Malawi national netball team, the Queens are through to the preliminary round second stage at the ongoing Netball World Cup where they have been slotted in Group F after finishing as runners-up in Group B.
The Queens clinched the second position after a convincing 65-41 victory over Barbados in their last group match.
Shooter Joyce Mvula clinched the Player of the Match Award for the second consecutive game.
The United Kingdom-based Manchester Thunder player said she was excited to win the second award after bagging her first accolade at the tournament in the match against Singapore on Saturday.
“I just want to thank my fellow players. I couldn’t do it myself,” Mvula said in a post-match interview monitored on SuperSport.
After starting the group stage with a loss to New Zealand, the Queens bounced back to beat Singapore 87-38 on Saturday.
New Zealand have finished the first stage with 100 percent record after beating both Barbados and Singapore to finish top of the group.
International Netball Federation (INF) has introduced a complex format for the Netball World Cup.
In the new format, teams have to be at their best as they battle out in four round robin stages.
This is in contrast with the 2015 tournament format which although it had three stages, the preliminary stage was not subdivided into a further two stages.
The top three teams in each group will progress to the preliminaries stage two where the top three teams from groups A and B will form group F, and the top three teams from groups C and D will form Group G.
The bottom four finishers from groups A to D will compete for 13th to16th places in Group E.
In the second stage, Malawi’s Queens are now in Group F which has six teams—Group A winners Australia, Group B winners New Zealand, Barbados who finished third in Group B, Zimbabwe and Northern Ireland.
The winners and runners up will proceed into play-offs and the others play the same position from Group G in a placement match.
Assistant coach Whyte Mlilima said the Queens are determined to go all the way as the team, which has been relegated to position nine on INF rankings, is trying to squeeze in top six .
“For Malawi, the sky is the limit,” he said. “We are determined to go all the way as we try to reclaim our positions among the top teams.”
The second round of the preliminaries stage will be played from today to July 18 while the play-offs and placings will be played from July 19 to 21.
The 2019 African Cup of Nations, AFCON, the continent’s biggest football showpiece is underway in Egypt. It kicked off on June 21 after a spectacular opening ceremony.
Hosts, Egypt, went on to beat Zimbabwe by a lone goal in the first game of the tournament. After twelve match days and two days of rest, the round of 16 was dispatched leaving eight teams. The quarter-finals played over four days have further whittled the number down to four.
As at July 11, there are only four teams left in contention. The first to fourth will be known between them. They are Senegal (Teranga lions), Nigeria (Super Eagles), Algeria (The Foxes) and Tunisia (Carthage Eagles).
Semi-final fixtures
Nigeria vs. Algeria – Sunday July 14, 2019
Senegal vs. Tunisia – Sunday July 14, 2019
Winners meet in final slated for Friday July 19, 2019
Losers will play in the third-place game on 17 July, 2019
The final could potentially be an all West African or all North African affair. It could also be a battle between the West and North – Africa’s perennial football power blocs.
Senegal is the only team that has yet to taste AFCON glory in the quartet. Nigeria have won it thrice whiles Algeria and Tunisia have each won it once.
William Troost-Ekong’s goal put Nigeria into the semi-finals
CAIRO-(MaraviPost)-William Troost-Ekong scored a dramatic late winner to send Nigeria into the Africa Cup of Nations semi-final at the expense of South Africa.
Samuel Chukwueze hit the opener as he controlled Alex Iwobi’s cross, before scoring at the second attempt.
Bongani Zungu equalised with a header initially ruled out for offside before VAR replays showed a free-kick hit a Nigerian player on the way to him.
But Udinese’s Troost-Ekong bundled home from close range late on to win it.
His finish was into an empty net after goalkeeper Ronwen Williams totally missed Moses Simon’s corner.
Nigeria face Ivory Coast or Algeria in Sunday’s second semi-final (20:00 BST).
According to BBC, the Super Eagles were deserved winners and led through Villarreal youngster Chukwueze’s first goal for his country. They should have been ahead by more when Williams pushed Peter Etebo’s free-kick onto the bar.
Zungu’s goal was the first in the Africa Cup of Nations given by the VAR, which has just been introduced for the quarter-finals. It looked offside initially but Percy Tau’s free-kick hit Nigeria’s Odion Ighalo on the way on to Amiens midfielder Zungu’s head.
The game looked set for extra time before Williams flapped at a cross to leave Troost-Ekong with a simple finish.
Senegal, who beat Benin 1-0 earlier on Wednesday, play either Madagascar or Tunisia in the other semi-final.
the build-up to the crucial quarter-final clash between Nigeria and South Africa at the ongoing African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt, a name surprisingly cropping up is that of influential Nigerian cleric T.B. Joshua.
In the build-up to the crucial quarter-final clash between Nigeria and South Africa at the ongoing African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt, a name surprisingly cropping up is that of influential Nigerian cleric T.B. Joshua.
“I am appealing to T.B. Joshua to please pray for our team before the match tomorrow,” wrote Nigerian Itunu Komolafe on social media. “We can’t afford to crash out like Ghana, Cameroon and even the host country, Egypt!”
“Prophet T.B. Joshua is a spiritual father to both Nigeria and South Africa; I know the man of God will be neutral,” posited Bongani during an opinion poll by a local radio station in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
In a confrontational spat between rival supporters on Twitter, Emma Aboyi suggested victory for the Super Eagles would avenge the spate of xenophobic killings of Nigerians in South Africa.
Kagisho retorted by singling out the ‘attack’ on Joshua’s church in 2014 which led to multiple South African fatalities.
sconduct against prominent Nigerian Pastor T.B. Joshua
“Dear Nigeria, our people that were killed in TB Joshua’s church are still fresh in our minds… We are dedicating our win tonight against Nigeria to them,” tweeted Mawara, another user posting a video of the infamous ‘plane’ which encircled the building before its tragic implosion.
T.B. Joshua is no stranger when it comes to the fusion of spirituality and sports in Africa.
Indeed, the controversy associated with his accurate sporting predictions – coupled with the spirited backlash from fanatic fans – led the cleric to officially ‘resign’ from public ‘football prophecies’ in 2013 after he accurately declared Nigeria would overcome Burkina Faso to take the AFCON trophy.
Perhaps the most contentious of his predictions was Nigeria’s missing out on AFCON qualification a year earlier.
“What I saw was not favourable towards Nigeria,” the cleric told congregants on Sunday 2nd October 2011, six days before the Super Eagles crucial qualifying match between Guinea, adding that he saw celebrations amongst the opposition and the team to ‘score first’ would qualify.
After Guinea secured qualification at the expense of Nigeria – following a last-gasp equaliser after their initial goal was cancelled by two goals from the Super Eagles – the public backlash against Joshua even spiralled to the point that threats of attacking his church were posted online by incensed fans.
“The prediction of Prophet TB Joshua really affected us,” the Super Eagle’s star striker Osaze Odemwengie admitted to reporters after their shock ousting.
In Nigeria’s absence, the ensuing competition was equally ‘foreseen’ as Joshua declared minutes before the final between Zambia and Ivory Coast that the Southern Africans would triumph.
“This victory is for a country you are not expecting,” he told congregants at The SCOAN on Sunday February 12th 2012, adding that an error in the 25th minute of the second half where a ball is hit over the bar would prove pivotal.
Didier Drogba’s missed penalty in the 70th minute of the closely contested match – where the ball ballooned wildly over the bar – was a decisive moment in the goalless draw, with Zambia eventually triumphing on penalties to claim a historic maiden victory.
Ghanaians will equally remember Joshua for his ‘spiritual support’ in the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2009, where the Black Satellites triumphed against the favourites Brazil to claim the title.
Coach Sellas Tetteh shocked the football world with his admission he was in regular communication with the Nigerian cleric during the final match, emphasising his prayers and spiritual guidance were instrumental to his team’s historic victory.
“He told me we would win the trophy before the tournament and on the day of the game, he again predicted it,” Tetteh told Ghanaian media afterwards, adding the cleric had mentioned specific details pertaining events that unfolded in the tense match.
When South Africa historically hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2010, Joshua is said to have prophesied the results of the opening and final match – in which Spain took the title – as well as Nigeria’s last-gasp qualification for the tournament.
On Sunday 11th October 2009, he stated Nigeria would emerge victorious in their qualifying match against Mozambique, specifying a ‘headed goal’ would earn them victory.
The prediction materialised courtesy of an Obinna Nsofor header in the dying seconds of the match, securing the Super Eagle’s qualification.
With Joshua’s repertoire of accurate predictions, the string of famous players who have visited him for counsel and the immense influence he wields in both South Africa and Nigeria – it is perhaps no surprise both teams are seeking his blessings ahead of their crucial encounter.
Ihechukwu Njoku wrote from Lagos, Nigeria
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