{"id":12013,"date":"2021-12-22T17:42:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fifa-approves-15-malawi-referees-for-2022"},"modified":"2021-12-22T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:03:59","slug":"fifa-approves-15-malawi-referees-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fifa-approves-15-malawi-referees-for-2022","title":{"rendered":"FIFA approves 15 Malawi referees for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>FIFA has approved all 15 Malawian referees whose names were submitted for the 2022 International Referees Panel. Center referee Newton Nyirenda, who officiated the Airtel Top 8 final match between Nyasa Big Bullets and Silver Strikers last Saturday, is the only new name on the list replacing Ishmael Chizinga while the rest have been maintained from the 2021 list.<\/p>\n<p>FAM Referees Development Officer Fredrick Kholopa said Chizinga\u2019s name was not submitted to FIFA for consideration because the referee did not attend the FIFA listing fitness test which was conducted on 15th September in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased that FIFA has finally approved all the 15 names that we submitted for the 2022 International Referees panel which includes five women and 10 men. From The 15, six are center referees and nine are assistant referees,\u201d he said. Kholopa has since urged elite referees in the country to keep on working hard and compete for places on the FIFA list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at the list, most of the names are being maintained meaning that our referees are doing good. We would like to urge other elite referees to continue working hard and compete with these referees if they are to make it to be international referees because we look at their performance when officiating our elite leagues before submitting the names to FIFA,\u201d said Kholopa.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full list: Center Referees Godfrey Nkhakananga, Gift Chicco, Mercy Kayira, Easter Zimba, Eness Gumbo, Newton Nyirenda Assistant referees Bernadettar Kwimbira, Clemence Kanduku, Eliza Sichinga, Innocent Kaundula, Happiness Mbandambanda, Edward Kambatuwa, Joseph Nyauti, Jonizio Luwizi, Evance Msonda Source: FAM<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. 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Center referee Newton Nyirenda, who officiated the Airtel Top 8 final match between Nyasa Big Bullets and Silver Strikers last Saturday, is the only new name on the list replacing Ishmael Chizinga while the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[233,371,125,234,636],"class_list":["post-12013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-football","tag-malawi","tag-referees"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FIFA approves 15 Malawi referees for 2022 - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FIFA has approved all 15 Malawian referees whose names were submitted for the 2022 International Referees Panel. 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