HARARE – In recent years the Harare derby pitting Dynamos and CAPS United has fallen short justifying its status as the flagship fixture in the Castle Premiership. CAPS have failed to beat Dynamos in the league since 2009 and matches between the two sides have become one-sided affairs. However, recent form suggests that this weekend…
BULAWAYO – Hosts Bantu Rovers had 17-year old Bukhosi Sibanda to thank when he rescued them from the jaws of defeat with a controversial penalty conversion in the dying stages of a bottom of the table clash against visiting Triangle. The youngster’s effort cancelled out a second minute strike by Triangle’s Richard Kawondera but the…
HARARE – Rodrick Mutuma was considered excess baggage by South African Absa Premiership side Bloemfontein Celtic after only playing there for one and a half seasons. The self-proclaimed ‘Prince’, however, returned to the one place where he knew he would be loved and his reign would be restored. After his unsuccessful stay with Phunye Sele…
HARARE – Zimbabwe cricket fringe players will get an opportunity to impress selectors and fight for national team jerseys when they take on the touring Afghanistan in warm-up matches scheduled for Bulawayo. The Zimbabwe A side is made up of mainly fringe players led by team captain Regis Chakabva, Foster Mutizwa, Tafadzwa Kamungozi, Tino Mutombodzi,…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has condemned the attack on referee Mercy Maimbo by Black Rhinos Queens players Rufaro Machingura and Tariro Makumbe at the weekend. The Black Rhinos Queens duo attacked Maimbo during the Net One Cup Final at Rufaro Stadium on Saturday in which the army side lost 5-4 on penalties…
HARARE – Local karateka, Christopher Masauso is appealing for funds that he can be able to travel to Senegal next month to represent Zimbabwe at the 15th Senior Ufak Championships. The competition is going to run from 14 to 16 August in the Senegalese capital of Dakar. Masauso, who returned from Zambia last week where…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Junior Golf Association president, Brian Maphosa believes the country’s top four junior golfers should hang on to the positives from their last place finish at the Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Japan. Zimbabwe’s quartet of Stuart Krog, Justin Kersten, Kieren Vincent and Mbongeni Maphosa shot a combined score of 33-over-par 885…
LONDON – Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has vowed that his side will win the World Cup final in Rio de Janeiro’s historic Maracana Stadium this week. Now his reputation is on the line. Known as ‘Felipao’, or ‘Big Phil’, depending on which of the many countries he has been working in, Scolari managed the…
LONDON – Another semifinal is another battle of nerves for Joachim Loew, who risks becoming Germany’s nearly man. After eight years in charge of Die Mannschaft, Loew so far has one previous World Cup semifinal, the 2008 European Championship final and the Euro 2012 semifinal to show. No trophy. But the 54-year-old former assistant to…
LONDON – Argentina believe. That much was clear from the raucous celebrations whipped up by those clad in sky blue and white in the streets of Brasília on Saturday, or the selfies tweeted by joyous players from the dressing room and on the coach en route back to the airport. It was even vaguely discernible…
