| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 2003? | ||
| Position(s) | right back[1] | ||
| International career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022– | Malawi | ||
Bernadette Mkandawire (born c.2003) is a Malawian footballer. She is a defender who played for the Nyasa Big Bullets, in Kazakhstan, Zambia and for the Malawi women's national football team.
Life
[edit]Mkandawire had played for Blantyre Zero.[1] In 2022 she was one of five players chosen from the Nyasa Big Bullets team to represent Malawi at the COSAFA Women's Championship by the new coach Lovemore Fazili. It was her first time at this championship. The others were Mary Chavinda, Vanessa Chikupira, Emily Jossam and the goalkeeper Martha Banda.[2]
At the end of 2024 she and Vanessa Chikupira signed to play for the women’s top-tier football league club BIIK Kazygurt in Kazakhstan.[3] She left as captain of team after leaving the Bullets at the top of the league after winning sixteen league matches consecutively.[1]
In February 2025, she joined other Malawian players picked to play Zambia. She was one of seven players based abroad who were included in Lovemore Fazili's squad, although she was in Zambia. Chimwemwe Madise and Sabina Thom were in the DRC and Tabitha Chawinga and Rose Kabzere were in France. Vanessa Chikupira was also in Zambia and Temwa Chawinga joined them from America.[4] There were two games in Zambia and Malawi lost the first and won the second with a 3:2 victory.[5] The National team takes pride in the number of its players who play abroad, because they don't play many international competitions so its good to see that their players are noticed.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Media, Bullets (2024-12-29). "Mkandawire joins Kazakhstan champions BIIK Shymkent". FCB Nyasa Big Bullets FC. Archived from the original on 2025-03-16. Retrieved 2025-07-19.
- ^ Loka, Kimpho (2022-08-29). "Five Bullets players in Scorchers final squad for Cosafa Women's Championship". FCB Nyasa Big Bullets FC. Retrieved 2025-07-19.
- ^ a b Manda, Solomon (2024-12-31). "Scorchers duo clinches deals". Nation Online. Retrieved 2025-07-19.
- ^ Chirwa, Garry (2025-02-17). "Temwa in, Fazili names final squad". Nation Online. Archived from the original on 2025-02-27. Retrieved 2025-02-26.
- ^ Kanjere, Peter (2025-02-25). "Women's Football: Malawi come back to beat Zambia in second friendly, exact revenge". Pan-Africa Football. Archived from the original on 2025-02-25. Retrieved 2025-02-28.