{"id":772842,"date":"2022-01-30T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/30\/juju-in-afcon-malawi-fa-breaks-silence\/"},"modified":"2022-01-30T14:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T14:33:58","slug":"juju-in-afcon-malawi-fa-breaks-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/30\/juju-in-afcon-malawi-fa-breaks-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Juju&#8217; in AFCON: Malawi FA breaks silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"920\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AfCON-Logo-696x920.png\"   alt=\"AfCON Logo\" title=\"AfCON Logo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">AfCON Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Malawi Football fraternity has refuted speculations suggesting that their kit manager is the \u2018juju\u2019 man on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Following Malawi\u2019s remarkable progress at the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals in Cameroon, some Malawians started accusing the Flames team kit manager Richard Justin Zawazawa of using juju.<\/p>\n<p>After the Flames reached the Round of 16 for the very first time in Malawian history, critics were very convinced that Zawazawa had something to do with that. They described him as a juju person who was behind the team\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking during an interview, the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) president\u00a0Walter Nyamilandu\u00a0has dismissed the rumours.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Nyamilandu said Zawazawa\u2019s role in the team was to look after the national team\u2019s equipment. He bemoaned how people were mocking and insulting Zawazawa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very unfortunate that some Malawians, especially those on social media, rush in making conclusions about some personalities before getting to the gist of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Justin looks after all the national teams\u2019 equipment. It is bad to portray him as such. He is a very busy and important man on the team. He is simply a hard worker,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zawazawa started working as a cleaner at FAM in 2007 before he was promoted to kit master.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi has been making quite great strides at AFCON. They qualified for the knockout stage for the first time in the country\u2019s history after they beat Zimbabwe 2-1, drew with Senegal 0-0 and lost 0-1 to Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"dLDI27l0yYE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Black Stars Coach: Chris Hughton in Ghana for top job \u2013 Agokansie - Adom TV News (28-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dLDI27l0yYE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfCON Logo Malawi Football fraternity has refuted speculations suggesting that their kit manager is the \u2018juju\u2019 man on the bench. Following Malawi\u2019s remarkable progress at the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals in Cameroon, some Malawians started accusing the Flames team kit manager Richard Justin Zawazawa of using juju. After the Flames reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,2431,1043,926,2637],"class_list":["post-772842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-breaks","tag-juju","tag-malawi","tag-silence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}