LONDON – Lionel Messi scored in time added on to give Argentina a barely deserved 1-0 win over a feisty Iran in their Group F encounter at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte on Saturday. The heavily favoured South Americans were frustrated by some tenacious defending throughout. In the first half Messi was largely contained…
HARARE – Edmund Kudzayi, the Sunday Mail editor has been remanded in custody to Monday pending his bail application. He is being charged with subverting a constitutional government by attempting to commit an act of insurgency, banditry, sabotage and terrorism. CHARGED: Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi leaves the Rotten Row Magistrates Court after his initial…
HARARE – Dynamos defender Ocean Mushure has insisted that the pressure will be almost entirely on Highlanders when the country’s two biggest clubs clash in a Castle Premiership match at the National Sports Stadium tomorrow afternoon. Mushure is adamant DeMbare is not concerned with the threat posed by Bosso and that it is their opponents,…
GWERU – Harare city coach Bigboy Mawiwi was left fuming after his charges allowed Chapungu to come back into the match and force a late equaliser in a Castle Larger Premiership match at Ascot Stadium that ended 1-1 yesterday. Mawiwi had declared before the match that he was gunning for maximum points and true to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe national rugby team survived injury concerns yesterday after a number of players limped off during a warm up match between the Wildebeast XV and the Impala XV here. Prop Denford Mutamangira was first on the injury list after picking up a concussion before hooker Simba Mandioma was carried off with a similar…
HARARE – 1987 ZIMBABWE Rugby World Cup star Grant Davidson has been hugely impressed by the current Sables squad, which has to overcome numerous obstacles in their quest to return to world rugby’s biggest showcase in more than two decades. Brendan Dawson’s men play in a World Cup qualification tournament in Madagascar at the end…
JOHANNESBURG – One week into the 2014 World Cup and one thing which has become so obvious is that soccer on the African continent has alarmingly gone backwards instead of moving forward. Countries like Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria carried so much hope for the continent but after a week of huge disappointment, even the most…
HWANGE – Former FC Platinum coach Tenant Chilumba – now in charge of Power Dynamos in his native Zambia – has confirmed interest in the Zimbabwean trio of Winston Mhango, Rodwell Chinyengetere and Petros Mhari. Goalkeeper Mhari, midfielder Mhango and striker Chinyengetere played under Chilumba at Zimbabwean club Hwange. When the Zambian left Hwange to…
HARARE – Zimbabwean midfielder Elvis Meleka has no plans for renewing his contract with his Botswana club Mochudi Centre Chiefs next season and now eyes a move to the Castle Premiership. Meleka’s contract with Chiefs is coming to an end on July 31 and has no plans of returning to Botswana. “I will not renew…
LONDON – Costa Rica saved the Queen. But there was no saving England. The end of Roy Hodgson’s team World Cup dream has been confirmed. England needed Italy to win here in order to cling to the most slender of lifelines, yet the hope was snuffed out by Costa Rica, the tournament’s most romantic surprise….
