Malawi’s women’s football has been rocked by a blazing scandal, after Women’s Football Association boss Adelaide Migogo flew home mid‑tournament — just as the Scorchers smashed their way into the WAFCON quarter‑finals. “The optics are just ridiculously bad,” he said, accusing her of abandoning the squad at the moment they needed leadership most. Fan Temwanani Mughogho went even harder — publicly demanding Migogo return to Morocco immediately, questioning why hotel‑support staff remained with the team while the president of women’s football boarded a flight home. “Mwini team ya amayi ndiinuyo.” Critics warn the fiasco is now overshadowing Malawi’s greatest women’s football achievement ever, with calls for Minister of Gender and the Sports Council to intervene before the row spirals further.