HARARE – Following off-spinner John Nyumbu’s outstanding debut against the world’s best Test side, Zimbabwe coach Stephen Mangongo has dropped his biggest hint that he’s also ready to cap one of the country’s most exciting fast bowling prospects – Tatenda Gumunyu-Manatsa, soon. Standing 6ft tall and blessed with impressive agility for a man of his…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) yesterday appointed coaches for all the junior national teams with Dynamos coach Calisto Pasuwa becoming the substantive Under-23 coach. With the Warriors disbanded and with no coach after Ian Gorowa’s resignation earlier this month, Pasuwa becomes the de facto national team coach. Zifa say they are now concentrating…
HARARE – Highly-rated Zimbabwean thoroughbred horse trainer Sebastian D’Aquino has joined the great trek to South Africa. A variety of family and business reasons has resulted in D’Aquino’s relocation across the Limpopo where he has entered a partnership with veteran trainer Ronnie Sheehan at Milnerton in Cape Town. “The reasoning behind the decision to relocate…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe international footballer Edmore Chitato passed away yesterday. Chitato, 34, succumbed to a heart disease on Thursday evening at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare. The former Hwange and Monomotapa forward survived by his wife Sibongile Kahondo and two children, Clara aged 14 and five-year-old son, Arshavin. Mourners are gathered at his parents’ home…
HARARE – In his playing days, Tonderai Ndiraya was credited with engineering most of Dynamos’s goals from an offensive midfield position, but he says no amount of praises can make up for his failure to win the league title. The former Prince Edward schoolboy made his debut for the famous Harare side in 1998 aged…
JOHANNESBURG – The global showpiece which is the English Premiership kicks off this afternoon with lots of intriguing promises from various clubs. Champions Manchester City have once again gone into the overdrive when it comes to recruitment by making use of billions from the oil money being poured in by the UAE Sheikhs. The noise…
LONDON – Jose Mourinho claimed last season that Chelsea had the role of the ‘little horse’ in the title race, but on the eve of the new campaign he has a squad that can blow away their competition for the Premier League trophy. After the drama of last season, this is shaping up to be…
LONDON – Paul Scholes has described Louis van Gaal as “a mad genius” who will bring to Manchester United the combination of charisma, ability, intimidation and fear with which Sir Alex Ferguson inspired a succession of title-winning charges. “I haven’t really come across him a lot,” said Scholes, who retired in 2013 following a trophy-laden…
HARARE – This week, the back pages have been dominated by the ongoing strike by players at Zimbabwe’s Premier League champions, Dynamos. Since Monday, the players have been reporting for training at their Zimphos Grounds but did not take to the field. The players are demanding that the club pay them their outstanding signing-on fees…
EDITOR — The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) summit which starts tomorrow at Victoria Falls with the nonagenarian President Robert Mugabe taking over the rotational reins of the regional bloc invokes serious questions and is dispiriting to any sober minded person, to say the least. The biggest question for me is, how is the 90-year-old…
