Change: The Flames way

The Flames final travelling party, this week, bound for Namibia via Botswana speaks volumes about the wind of change blowing in the Malawi senior national football team.

Meticais lures Malawi players

The trend of Malawian players sneaking out to neighbouring Mozambique clubs is no new phenomenon. Only that it was, until this season, on a small scale, predominantly involving TNM Super League small fish.

Celebrating Sulom talent

The 2012/13 TNM Super League season will be remembered for exposing a group of young hot prospects who gave Malawi football reason to believe that, with proper nurturing, the future could be bright.

It’s up to Silver

Chart-bursting hit Zili ndiIi Iwe by Maskal depicts a lover pledging unconditional love while throwing the ball to the partner. Maskal sings: Zili ndi iwe kuti udzandikonde/udzandisiye/udzandinyoze etc.

Unmasking e-ticketing

Picture a fan walking into a shopping mall to buy an electronic ticket. A day later, he goes to Silver Stadium hoping to witness Silver Strikers in action.

At the gate, there are no python-shaped queues, let alone jostling, pushing and shoving. He just swipes his card on the machine at the gate which clicks open for him to enter.

Can Zambia do it again?

There should be no doubt which team most Malawians will support when the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations bursts to life on January 19 on the shores of South Africa.

Sulom players who stood out

In keeping with tradition, SportsXtra picks a squad of stand-out players for the 2012/13 season which wound up on Sunday in Malawi. As the curtain fell, Silver Strikers were declared champions while Escom United, Kabwafu United and Bvumbwe Research were relegated. SportsXtra sticks to a conventional 4-4-2 formation.

The beauty of football

The game of football provides funny moments both on and off the pitch and probably that is why Brazilian Edison Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele, who is widely considered as the best footballer of all time, described it as the most beautiful game.

Fixing crashed Malawi Flames

Experienced career coach and teacher, Eddington Ng’onamo is the man Football Association of Malawi (FAM) thinks can, with the help of inexperienced Patrick Mabedi and Ernest Mtawali, fix the broken Flames.

Keshi criticises white coaches

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has strongly criticised the role of some white coaches in African football just weeks before the Africa Cup of Nations.