It cannot get sweeter than this!The Malawi National Team (aka the Flames) yesterday stunned the Egyptian National Team (Pharaohs) by 1-0 in a joint World Cup/Africa Cup of Nations qualifier played in Blantyre yesterday. As a Malawian who ardently follows soccer, I would like to congratulate coach Kinnah Phiri, the techincal team and the players for a job well done. Chiukepo Msowoya (the scorer), you rock!!!You have reminded me the days of late Frank “Burruchanga” Mtawali who scored a brilliant goal against the same team in the 90s. We won that game by 1 goal to nil as well.But this time it is even sweeter because Egyptians just won their second consecutive African Cup of Nations early this year. I wish the Flames all the best as they invade Cairo next weekend for the second leg. We are 100% behind you here at nthambazale.com.
I hope people at the Football Association of Malawi will now believe that we do not necessarily need a highly paid expatriate coach to make it big in football. Of course, some expatriate coaches like Kim Splidsboel were very good.But generally, most expatriate coaches gallivanting the African continent and earning a lot of tax payer’s money in the process are not good enough. If you think that I am lying, compare Steve Constantine’s work with that of Kinnah Phiri. It is this lack of belief in our own products that continues to kill us in Africa.
20/06/2008:Update
Wilbau has put up a short photo safari about the Malawi-Egypt game. These photos were taken by his daughter Petra who is doing some volunteer work in Malawi. Petra was one of the 40,000 fans that witnessed the Flames victory over the Pharaoh’s last weekend. I picked out three photos for you as shown below.
Malawi soccer fans
Malawi and Egpyt in action at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre, Malawi
Jubilant Malawi supporters after the match
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback‘It is this lack of belief in our own products that continues to kill us in Africa.’
Yes, that’s it…
Up with the winning Flames.
If I could I would sponsor them…
Day after tomorrow my national soccer team, Italy, will have the decisive match at Euro2008.
Despite our certainly not brilliant playing, especially against the great Netherlands (against Romania the referee stole us a goal), though being the world champion team, I hope that we’ll win against a rather bad France.
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Well done flames i am proud of you. Good luck as you are about to reburn those who call themselves african champs
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Well done flames I hope you will reburn them in Cairo in the next return mutch
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This reminds of the good old days when Kinna and Jack were rivals and our team was worthy of respect. I enoyed reading this. Congrats to our Malawi national team
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@Eltas:I was very young when the likes of Kinna and Jack were making the headlines because of their exploits in football. I just hope that they will inspire the youngsters so that the winning trend can continue.
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Wow. Thats incredible to beat a team like egypt. Im not a fan of malawi but what i can say that they have achieve a lot by beating a team like egypt who were champions of africa. Congrats.
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Lol, Malawi soccer fans is funny
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