Former Malawi National Women’s Football teams and Nyasa Big Bullets Women FC player Thandi Kasiya has died.

Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has announced the sad news in a statement made available to faceofmalawi.

Kasiya died at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre after a short illness.

She was in the first Scorchers team that made its maiden international appearance at the 2002 Cosafa Women’s Championship in Zimbabwe and played for the team up to 2016.