{"id":6493,"date":"2021-09-23T19:30:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T19:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament"},"modified":"2021-09-23T20:07:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:07:57","slug":"fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament","title":{"rendered":"FCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Malawi<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>First Capital Bank (FCB) on Wednesday morning became the first company to sponsor the Flames\u2019 Afcon Fundraising Golf Tournament after pumping K5 million in the event scheduled for October 2, in Lilongwe. The tournament is aimed at raising funds for Flames\u2019 participation at the Africa Cup of Nations finals in Cameroun in January next year.<\/p>\n

The bank\u2019s Chief Executive Officer Jaco Viljoen said they were motivated to sponsor the initiative after noting that most players in the Flames squad graduated from the FCB Under 20 League, which the bank has been sponsoring since 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a very good relationship with FAM dating back to 13 years when we started sponsoring the Under 20 League which is now a breeding ground for the Flames.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought it wise to sponsor the golf tournament because qualifying for AFCON doesn\u2019t come every day. We saw this as an opportunity for us to show our continued support for Malawi football,\u201d said Viljoen.<\/p>\n

FAM 1st Vice President and Chairperson for the Flames Afcon Resource Mobilisation Taskforce Jabbar Alide said the taskforce is grateful to FCB for the gesture and has appealed for more support from the corporate World.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited that FCB has come out to support our project. We have been working with them for quite some time and this is the last thing we expected from them knowing that they are already in the game sponsoring our U20 League. We hope that this gesture will spur other companies who would like to sponsor t the golf tournament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Alide disclosed that the Taskforce has a target of raising about K30 Million from the golf tournament and they have so far raised K20 Million. \u201cOur target is at K30 Million and I am pleased to announce that we have pledges from different institutions and individuals and hopefully we will exceed our target,\u201d said Alide. Source: FAM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. First Capital Bank (FCB) on Wednesday morning became the first company to sponsor the Flames\u2019 Afcon Fundraising Golf Tournament after pumping K5 million in the event scheduled for October 2, in Lilongwe. The tournament is aimed at raising funds for Flames\u2019 participation at the Africa Cup of Nations finals in Cameroun in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[233,371,1196,739,125,234],"class_list":["post-6493","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-first-capital-bank","tag-flames","tag-football","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"\nFCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"First Capital Bank (FCB) on Wednesday morning became the first company to sponsor the Flames\u2019 Afcon Fundraising Golf Tou ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First Capital Bank (FCB) on Wednesday morning became the first company to sponsor the Flames\u2019 Afcon Fundraising Golf Tou ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-23T19:30:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-23T20:07:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-614cde72bb4c6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1008\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"477\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"FCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-23T19:30:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-23T20:07:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament\"},\"wordCount\":324,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-614cde72bb4c6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"First Capital Bank\",\"flames\",\"football\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament\",\"name\":\"FCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament - Malawi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-614cde72bb4c6.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-23T19:30:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-23T20:07:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"First Capital Bank (FCB) on Wednesday morning became the first company to sponsor the Flames\u2019 Afcon Fundraising Golf Tou ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-614cde72bb4c6.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-614cde72bb4c6.jpg\",\"width\":1008,\"height\":477,\"caption\":\"FCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"FCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\",\"name\":\"Malawi\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"FCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament - Malawi","description":"First Capital Bank (FCB) on Wednesday morning became the first company to sponsor the Flames\u2019 Afcon Fundraising Golf Tou ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"FCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament","og_description":"First Capital Bank (FCB) on Wednesday morning became the first company to sponsor the Flames\u2019 Afcon Fundraising Golf Tou ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament","og_site_name":"Malawi","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-09-23T19:30:41+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-09-23T20:07:57+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1008,"height":477,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-614cde72bb4c6.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"FCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament","datePublished":"2021-09-23T19:30:41+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-23T20:07:57+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament"},"wordCount":324,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-614cde72bb4c6.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Malawi","First Capital Bank","flames","football","Malawi"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament","name":"FCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament - Malawi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-614cde72bb4c6.jpg","datePublished":"2021-09-23T19:30:41+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-23T20:07:57+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"First Capital Bank (FCB) on Wednesday morning became the first company to sponsor the Flames\u2019 Afcon Fundraising Golf Tou ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-614cde72bb4c6.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-614cde72bb4c6.jpg","width":1008,"height":477,"caption":"FCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/fcb-pumps-k5-million-in-flames-fundraising-golf-tournament#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"FCB pumps K5 million in Flames Fundraising Golf Tournament"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/","name":"Malawi","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}