BLANTYRE, Malawi: Substitute Chiukepo Msowoya scored in the last minute of injury time to give Malawi a surprise 1-0 victory over Egypt in World Cup qualifying Saturday.
"Malawi played a better game, that's all I can say," said Egypt coach Hassan Shehata.
The win leaves Malawi tied for first atop Group 12 with Egypt and Congo.
"The Flames played classy football," Malawi coach Kinna Phiri said. "We should have beaten the Pharaohs by a wide margin."
Saturday, 14 June 2008
010 CAN/World Cup: Less Fancied Malawi stun African Champions Egypt
Blantyre, Malawi - Egyptian coach Hassan Shehata could not believe his eyes as the Pharaohs went down 1-0 to soccer minnows Malawi Flames in a joint Africa Cup of Nation, World Cup qualifier in Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre.
From the start, Malawi looked eager for a historic win with their waves of attacks. However, the Egyptians will have their goalkeeper El-Hadary to thank because it was his spectacular saves that kept the scoreline low.
The game looked like it would end in a goalless draw but substitute Chiukepo Mso woya broke the deadlock with his stunning goal in the very last minute of added time.
"Malawi played a better game, that's all I can say," said a shell-shocked Shehata.
Malawi's coach Kinna Phiri said his players deserved the win. "The Flames played classy football," he said. "We should have beaten the Pharaohs by a wide margin. "
Malawi opened their Group 12 Africa Cup of Nation and World Cup campaign by hitting Djibouti 8-1 before going down to the DR Congo 0-1.
From the start, Malawi looked eager for a historic win with their waves of attacks. However, the Egyptians will have their goalkeeper El-Hadary to thank because it was his spectacular saves that kept the scoreline low.
The game looked like it would end in a goalless draw but substitute Chiukepo Mso woya broke the deadlock with his stunning goal in the very last minute of added time.
"Malawi played a better game, that's all I can say," said a shell-shocked Shehata.
Malawi's coach Kinna Phiri said his players deserved the win. "The Flames played classy football," he said. "We should have beaten the Pharaohs by a wide margin. "
Malawi opened their Group 12 Africa Cup of Nation and World Cup campaign by hitting Djibouti 8-1 before going down to the DR Congo 0-1.
Egypt stunned in Blantyre
Hassan Shehata's team were stunned in Blantyre
African champions Egypt suffered a shock set-back in their bid to qualify for the 2010 World and Nations Cups, when they were beaten by Malawi.
Hassan Shehata's team looked to have held on for a 0-0 draw, until stoppage time at the end of the game.
But in the third minute of time added on Chiukepo Msowoya grabbed the goal which gave the Flames a famous victory and put them on top of group 12.
Malawi, DR Congo and Egypt all have six points from three games, with Malawi top on goal difference.
The Pharaohs, reigning African champions, are down in third, and facing a real battle to get into the next round of qualifying.
DR Congo thrashed Djibouti on Friday by 6 goals to nil.
African champions Egypt suffered a shock set-back in their bid to qualify for the 2010 World and Nations Cups, when they were beaten by Malawi.
Hassan Shehata's team looked to have held on for a 0-0 draw, until stoppage time at the end of the game.
But in the third minute of time added on Chiukepo Msowoya grabbed the goal which gave the Flames a famous victory and put them on top of group 12.
Malawi, DR Congo and Egypt all have six points from three games, with Malawi top on goal difference.
The Pharaohs, reigning African champions, are down in third, and facing a real battle to get into the next round of qualifying.
DR Congo thrashed Djibouti on Friday by 6 goals to nil.
Briefs-Egypt sunk by last-gasp Malawi goal in qualifier
Soccer - A goal three minutes into stoppage time handed Malawi a surprise 1-0 win over African champions Egypt in their World Cup qualifier in Blantyre.
Substitute Chiukepo Msowoya took advantage of a defensive error to volley home and set up a three-way tie at the head of the African zone Group 12 standings.
Egypt, Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, who beat Djibouti 6-0 away on Friday, all have six points at the halfway point of the opening group phase of the qualifiers.
Soccer - French-based striker Moumouni Dagano scored a hat-trick as Burkina Faso kept up their winning run in the World Cup qualifiers with a 3-2 victory over Seychelles.
Dagano opened the scoring and got two more in the second half as Burkina Faso fought back from a 2-1 deficit against their Indian Ocean island hosts. The result kept up their 100 percent record in the African qualifying zoned Group Nine.
Soccer - Gabon and Lesotho will play their postponed World Cup qualifier in Libreville on June 28, FIFA said.
The match had originally been scheduled for May 31 but was postponed after Lesotho were prevented from arriving in the Gabonse capital because of flight problems.
The two teams compete in the African zone qualifying Group Five, along with Ghana and Libya.
Substitute Chiukepo Msowoya took advantage of a defensive error to volley home and set up a three-way tie at the head of the African zone Group 12 standings.
Egypt, Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, who beat Djibouti 6-0 away on Friday, all have six points at the halfway point of the opening group phase of the qualifiers.
Soccer - French-based striker Moumouni Dagano scored a hat-trick as Burkina Faso kept up their winning run in the World Cup qualifiers with a 3-2 victory over Seychelles.
Dagano opened the scoring and got two more in the second half as Burkina Faso fought back from a 2-1 deficit against their Indian Ocean island hosts. The result kept up their 100 percent record in the African qualifying zoned Group Nine.
Soccer - Gabon and Lesotho will play their postponed World Cup qualifier in Libreville on June 28, FIFA said.
The match had originally been scheduled for May 31 but was postponed after Lesotho were prevented from arriving in the Gabonse capital because of flight problems.
The two teams compete in the African zone qualifying Group Five, along with Ghana and Libya.
(Malawi - Egypt) preview
“my players will burn the Egyptian team” this is what Malawi’s coach (i don’t know his name and who does!!) said about the match. am i scare or am i scared?????? , maybe i am terrified from the mighty Malawi team who is formed from super star players who play in real madrid, barcelona,manchester, milan,juventus….etc.
away from this lunatic coach of Malawi, there are 2 reasons -until now- why we should be optimistic about our world cup qualifying campaign.
1- last time we went to world cup in italia 90 we played on this field against Malawi.
2- if you are following euro 2008, you may notice that Holland is marching toward the title just like they did in 1988. so maybe they win the European title and then we qualify and we are in the same group again and maybe hosni abd raboh score from a penalty again!!.
as for the team, the boys are now in malawi getting read yfor the match, we will be missing emad meteb because of a kneck injury, mohamed fadl and abd el aziz tawfik. they are replaced with abdallah el saeed and abd el salam nagah. also amr zaki mayn’t show up for this game because pain in his knees. rather than that everyone is ready for the game.
for malawi team, i know nothing about them except they bet djibouti 8-1 and that they lost from congo. they have no history to be mentioned nor they have famous players to talk about.
the game itself may not be easy, not because of Malawi team but because of the weather (it is raining there) and the pitch. anyway we must win to secure a place in the second round of qualifiers after congo beat djibouti 6-0 and are now at the top of the group with us.
it would be a one side game in the direction of malawi’s goal as usual but as earlier as we score the easier the match will be. i heard there will be much fans (40000!!) so we need to shut them up as quickly as possible.
key players would be hosni abd raboh, ahmed hassan and shikabala because with all these absences they may have the greater role of scoring. our starting strikers would be ahmed eid abd el malek and abd el salam naga7. on the other side, the defense line and essam el hadary won’t have much trouble to deal with.
prediction: 0-3
away from this lunatic coach of Malawi, there are 2 reasons -until now- why we should be optimistic about our world cup qualifying campaign.
1- last time we went to world cup in italia 90 we played on this field against Malawi.
2- if you are following euro 2008, you may notice that Holland is marching toward the title just like they did in 1988. so maybe they win the European title and then we qualify and we are in the same group again and maybe hosni abd raboh score from a penalty again!!.
as for the team, the boys are now in malawi getting read yfor the match, we will be missing emad meteb because of a kneck injury, mohamed fadl and abd el aziz tawfik. they are replaced with abdallah el saeed and abd el salam nagah. also amr zaki mayn’t show up for this game because pain in his knees. rather than that everyone is ready for the game.
for malawi team, i know nothing about them except they bet djibouti 8-1 and that they lost from congo. they have no history to be mentioned nor they have famous players to talk about.
the game itself may not be easy, not because of Malawi team but because of the weather (it is raining there) and the pitch. anyway we must win to secure a place in the second round of qualifiers after congo beat djibouti 6-0 and are now at the top of the group with us.
it would be a one side game in the direction of malawi’s goal as usual but as earlier as we score the easier the match will be. i heard there will be much fans (40000!!) so we need to shut them up as quickly as possible.
key players would be hosni abd raboh, ahmed hassan and shikabala because with all these absences they may have the greater role of scoring. our starting strikers would be ahmed eid abd el malek and abd el salam naga7. on the other side, the defense line and essam el hadary won’t have much trouble to deal with.
prediction: 0-3
New MRI to debut in Malawi; will save lives, advance malaria research
BLANTYRE, Malawi - Michigan State University physician Terrie Taylor studies cerebral malaria in Malawi where the vast majority of malaria patients are children. And, in order to get a closer look at the damage malaria does to a child, Taylor and colleagues study the child's brain, something that, up until now, could only be done in an autopsy.
However, that will change this summer when a new magnetic resonance imaging unit – the first MRI machine ever to come to Malawi – will be put into operation. This will not only let physicians assess malaria damage before a child has died, but will help to diagnose a wide range of illnesses that affect the local population.
“This will help in so many ways,” Taylor said. “We will use it for the research we do, we’ll be able to use it for everyday patients that come through the hospital, and it will help to attract and retain more doctors to Malawi.”
The MRI unit arrived in Malawi in April. It will be housed at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi’s largest city.
It will be officially dedicated by the minister of health on June 23 at a ceremony involving several MSU dignitaries.
“We are honored that the honorable Kkhumbo Kachali, Ministry of Health, will be able to join us on this historic occasion,” said William Strampel, dean of MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine which donated more than $400,000 for the project.
Currently, there is only one radiologist who serves the entire nation of Malawi. Another benefit of the new MRI unit is that it will allow that radiologist – Sam Kampondeni – to send images to MSU where radiologists will assess and evaluate them and offer a second opinion.
“With this new MRI unit we will be able to serve as many as 18 patients per day,” said Kampondeni, who trained as a guest in the MSU Department of Radiology in 2007.
Not only will the MRI machine be the first in Malawi, it also will serve the neighboring countries of Mozambique and Zambia, neither of which has an MRI.
Taylor, a University Distinguished Professor of internal medicine and an osteopathic physician, spends the rainy season – January through June – working at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, treating malaria patients and conducting research on a disease that kills as many as 2 million children in sub-Saharan Africa every year.
So far, one of the most significant findings from Taylor’s study is that about one-quarter of the children who were thought to have cerebral malaria turned out, on autopsy, to have died of infections, diseases or conditions that were completely unrelated to malaria.
“This calls into question a lot of the work that’s been done on severe malaria to date,” she said. “The studies might have included patients who were not suffering from malaria at all, because the researchers were using case definitions that lacked precision.”
Taylor’s autopsy study was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. The NIH also is providing funding for the MRI project, including funds to cover some of the operating costs as well as the high-speed Internet connection.
It was through the efforts of James Potchen, an MSU University Distinguished Professor of radiology and chairperson of the department, that General Electric Co. donated the MRI unit to the hospital. The department also supported the costs of training Kampondeni to interpret magnetic resonance images.
Combined with transportation costs and the various hardware, software and other MRI necessities, the total value of the donation was more than $1.3 million.
The largest part of the MRI machine – a compact car-sized magnet weighing 20 tons – arrived in Blantyre in April after what could have been a harrowing journey.
The machine was assembled in China and, beginning March 15, transported to the South African port of Durban by sea. After its arrival on the continent, the precious cargo was hauled by truck to its final destination, traveling through Botswana and Zambia to avoid civil unrest in Zimbabwe.
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Michigan State University has been advancing knowledge and transforming lives through innovative teaching, research and outreach for more than 150 years. MSU is known internationally as a major public university with global reach and extraordinary impact. Its 17 degree-granting colleges attract scholars worldwide who are interested in combining education with practical problem solving.
However, that will change this summer when a new magnetic resonance imaging unit – the first MRI machine ever to come to Malawi – will be put into operation. This will not only let physicians assess malaria damage before a child has died, but will help to diagnose a wide range of illnesses that affect the local population.
“This will help in so many ways,” Taylor said. “We will use it for the research we do, we’ll be able to use it for everyday patients that come through the hospital, and it will help to attract and retain more doctors to Malawi.”
The MRI unit arrived in Malawi in April. It will be housed at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi’s largest city.
It will be officially dedicated by the minister of health on June 23 at a ceremony involving several MSU dignitaries.
“We are honored that the honorable Kkhumbo Kachali, Ministry of Health, will be able to join us on this historic occasion,” said William Strampel, dean of MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine which donated more than $400,000 for the project.
Currently, there is only one radiologist who serves the entire nation of Malawi. Another benefit of the new MRI unit is that it will allow that radiologist – Sam Kampondeni – to send images to MSU where radiologists will assess and evaluate them and offer a second opinion.
“With this new MRI unit we will be able to serve as many as 18 patients per day,” said Kampondeni, who trained as a guest in the MSU Department of Radiology in 2007.
Not only will the MRI machine be the first in Malawi, it also will serve the neighboring countries of Mozambique and Zambia, neither of which has an MRI.
Taylor, a University Distinguished Professor of internal medicine and an osteopathic physician, spends the rainy season – January through June – working at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, treating malaria patients and conducting research on a disease that kills as many as 2 million children in sub-Saharan Africa every year.
So far, one of the most significant findings from Taylor’s study is that about one-quarter of the children who were thought to have cerebral malaria turned out, on autopsy, to have died of infections, diseases or conditions that were completely unrelated to malaria.
“This calls into question a lot of the work that’s been done on severe malaria to date,” she said. “The studies might have included patients who were not suffering from malaria at all, because the researchers were using case definitions that lacked precision.”
Taylor’s autopsy study was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. The NIH also is providing funding for the MRI project, including funds to cover some of the operating costs as well as the high-speed Internet connection.
It was through the efforts of James Potchen, an MSU University Distinguished Professor of radiology and chairperson of the department, that General Electric Co. donated the MRI unit to the hospital. The department also supported the costs of training Kampondeni to interpret magnetic resonance images.
Combined with transportation costs and the various hardware, software and other MRI necessities, the total value of the donation was more than $1.3 million.
The largest part of the MRI machine – a compact car-sized magnet weighing 20 tons – arrived in Blantyre in April after what could have been a harrowing journey.
The machine was assembled in China and, beginning March 15, transported to the South African port of Durban by sea. After its arrival on the continent, the precious cargo was hauled by truck to its final destination, traveling through Botswana and Zambia to avoid civil unrest in Zimbabwe.
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Michigan State University has been advancing knowledge and transforming lives through innovative teaching, research and outreach for more than 150 years. MSU is known internationally as a major public university with global reach and extraordinary impact. Its 17 degree-granting colleges attract scholars worldwide who are interested in combining education with practical problem solving.
City's Operation Hope sends supplies to Malawi
The Lubbock-based Operation Hope, a ministry code word meaning healing outreach for people everywhere, recently sent medical supplies and food to the people of Malawi in Africa.
Founded and headed by Dr. John P. Thomas, a surgeon with a practice at University Medical Center, the ministry seeks to take the gospel to people primarily in third-world countries by tending to pressing health and food needs.
An anonymous donation of 228 cases of dehydrated food was shipped Wednesday from Breedlove Dehydrated Food.
Karen Sonnenfelt, executive director of Operation Hope, said, "Residents of Lubbock flooded us with clothing and blankets."
Medical supplies were collected from University Medical Center and from others.
"I'd like to credit Dr. Mark McClanahan of Brownfield for sparking the initial interest with a financial donation and many medical items," Sonnenfelt said.
Operation Hope also has two partners in Lilongwe, Malawi: Likuni Hospital and Somebody Cares Missions. Both of the organizations will be the recipients of the items in the container that was shipped from Breedlove.
Founded and headed by Dr. John P. Thomas, a surgeon with a practice at University Medical Center, the ministry seeks to take the gospel to people primarily in third-world countries by tending to pressing health and food needs.
An anonymous donation of 228 cases of dehydrated food was shipped Wednesday from Breedlove Dehydrated Food.
Karen Sonnenfelt, executive director of Operation Hope, said, "Residents of Lubbock flooded us with clothing and blankets."
Medical supplies were collected from University Medical Center and from others.
"I'd like to credit Dr. Mark McClanahan of Brownfield for sparking the initial interest with a financial donation and many medical items," Sonnenfelt said.
Operation Hope also has two partners in Lilongwe, Malawi: Likuni Hospital and Somebody Cares Missions. Both of the organizations will be the recipients of the items in the container that was shipped from Breedlove.
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