HARARE – Harare City’s Silas Songani is in the running to be crowned the 2013 Castle Premiership Soccer Star of the Year after he was named amongst the 11 finalists in the running for the award on Saturday. The Soccer Stars selection meeting was held yesterday in the capital with members of the media, PSL…
HARARE – How Mine have taken the Catsle Premiership by storm since coach Philani ‘Beefy’ Ncube took over the reins from his namesake Philani Mabhena half through the 2013 season. Ncube has led the gold miners to the Mbada Diamonds Cup final following some memorable victories over giants Dynamos and CAPS United along the way….
HARARE – ST AIDENS Primary School cricketer Tapiwa Marumani wants to follow in the footsteps of his role model, Vusi Sibanda the Zimbabwe cricket team top order batsman. The 12-year-old Marumani was voted Player of the Tournament during the inaugural Rocview Cricket Academy (RCA) Under-13 tourney held at Glen View 3 Primary recently. The 10-overs…
JOHANNESBURG – Manny Pacquiao beat Brandon Rios on points in Macau on Sunday and answered all the questions, but one, about his immediate future. Pacquiao won the bout 120-108, 119-109 and 118-110 and collected the WBO international welterweight belt. The former eight-division champion dominated the bout from the opening seconds and gave Rios a hiding…
DORTMUND – Bayern Munich’s Germany star Mario Goetze came off the bench to score the opening goal in the European champions’ comprehensive 3-0 win at his ex-club Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. Goetze, who joined Bayern for €37 million in July after 12 years at Dortmund, gave the perfect reply to the chorus of boos he…
HARARE – Harare City coach Bigboy Mawiwi is not getting ahead of himself before his side’s date with destiny tomorrow. City head into their final game of a remarkable season against CAPS United on Sunday as the hot favourites to win the Castle Premiership title, ending Dynamos’ two-year dominance. Victory over the Green Machine will…
HARARE – A panel of experts is set to convene in Harare today to select the 11 finalists for the Soccer Star of the Year awards. Castle Premier League coaches, Footballers Union of Zimbabwe executive members, football writers and referees’ representatives will play a part in the selection of the 2013 Castle Soccer Star of…
BULAWAYO – Highlanders acting coach Bekithemba Ndlovu believes Bosso still have a chance of lifting the Castle Premiership title despite trailing log leaders Harare City by two points with a single match left to play in the season. The curtain comes down on Zimbabwe’s top-flight league this Sunday, and City will go into weekend’s action…
HARARE – Parliamentarians have expressed concern over the ministry of sports’ initiative to spend $46 million for next year’s Zone VI Youth Games at a time there are other pressing issues bedevilling major sports in Zimbabwe. Speaking on Thursday during a portfolio committee meeting to familiarise legislators with the newly created Sports ministry, chairperson of…
HARARE – The country’s deadliest marksman, Tendai Ndoro, has set his sights on finishing the 2013 Castle Premiership season with 20 goals to his credit. Ndoro is a sure bet to lift the Golden Boot award with 18 goals to his name. But the Chicken Inn hitman is eager to surpass last season’s winning tally….
