{"id":104410,"date":"2025-02-13T11:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T09:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach"},"modified":"2025-02-16T01:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T23:15:34","slug":"pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach","title":{"rendered":"Pasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) announced on Wednesday, 12 February, the appointment of Kalisto Pasuwa as the head coach of Malawi\u2019s men\u2019s national football team on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n

The former Dynamos and Zimbabwe national team coach, who had been serving in an interim role since November, was unveiled on Thursday.<\/p>\n

FAM President Fleetwood Haiya said Pasuwa\u2019s primary objective is to secure qualification for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Said Haiya:<\/p>\n

We all know what Pasuwa has achieved (locally and internationally), and it cannot be disputed that he has been one of the best performers on our football team.<\/p>\n

As FAM, we followed our processes and procedures, and after consultations and recommendations from our stakeholders, we have settled for Pasuwa.<\/p>\n

It was not a difficult choice for Pasuwa considering that we have tested him in the previous games when he was a caretaker.<\/p>\n

His number one target is to take us to 2027 AFCON. Other targets will help us build the team for AFCON.<\/p>\n

For example, we have six matches remaining in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers and we want him to win at least three games.<\/p>\n

Pasuwa\u2019s appointment comes after a brief standoff between FAM and the Malawi National Council of Sports (MNCS).<\/p>\n

MNCS initially blocked the hire, arguing the recruitment process had not followed proper procedure.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Sports later intervened, clearing the way for the appointment to proceed.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Zimbabwe<\/span> Follow Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) announced on Wednesday, 12 February, the appointment of Kalisto Pasuwa as the head coach of Malawi\u2019s men\u2019s national football team on a two-year contract. The former Dynamos and Zimbabwe national team coach, who had been serving in an interim role since November, was unveiled on Thursday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":104409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[8310,8313,2682,19],"class_list":["post-104410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-fam","tag-football-association-of-malawi","tag-kalisto-pasuwa","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"\nPasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) announced on Wednesday, 12 February, the appointment of Kalisto Pasuwa as the h ...\" \/>\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\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) announced on Wednesday, 12 February, the appointment of Kalisto Pasuwa as the h ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-13T09:56:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-15T23:15:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/02\/sm_1739435566.162962.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"527\" \/>\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\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Pasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-13T09:56:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-15T23:15:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach\"},\"wordCount\":253,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/02\/sm_1739435566.162962.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"FAM\",\"Football Association of Malawi\",\"Kalisto Pasuwa\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach\",\"name\":\"Pasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/02\/sm_1739435566.162962.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-13T09:56:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-15T23:15:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) announced on Wednesday, 12 February, the appointment of Kalisto Pasuwa as the h ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/02\/sm_1739435566.162962.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/02\/sm_1739435566.162962.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":527,\"caption\":\"Pasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Pasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\",\"name\":\"zimbabwe\",\"description\":\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?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\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Pasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach - zimbabwe","description":"The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) announced on Wednesday, 12 February, the appointment of Kalisto Pasuwa as the h ...","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\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Pasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach","og_description":"The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) announced on Wednesday, 12 February, the appointment of Kalisto Pasuwa as the h ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2025-02-13T09:56:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-02-15T23:15:34+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":527,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/02\/sm_1739435566.162962.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\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Pasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach","datePublished":"2025-02-13T09:56:30+00:00","dateModified":"2025-02-15T23:15:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach"},"wordCount":253,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/02\/sm_1739435566.162962.jpg","keywords":["FAM","Football Association of Malawi","Kalisto Pasuwa","Zimbabwe"],"articleSection":["all news","sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach","name":"Pasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/02\/sm_1739435566.162962.jpg","datePublished":"2025-02-13T09:56:30+00:00","dateModified":"2025-02-15T23:15:34+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) announced on Wednesday, 12 February, the appointment of Kalisto Pasuwa as the h ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/02\/sm_1739435566.162962.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/02\/sm_1739435566.162962.jpg","width":720,"height":527,"caption":"Pasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/pasuwa-appointed-malawi-national-team-coach#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Pasuwa Appointed Malawi National Team Coach"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/","name":"zimbabwe","description":"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?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\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}