GWERU – FC Platinum’s losing run continued when they lost their third Castle Lager Premiership match in a row against previously winless Whawha here yesterday to pile the pressure on coach Norman Mapeza. The Platinum miners had lost to Chicken Inn and Harare City heading into yesterday’s match and their luck did not change as…
HARARE – Triangle coach Kelvin Kaindu slammed the state of the Lafarge Stadium turf as his side succumbed to their first defeat of the season at the hands of Castle Lager Premiership novices Flame Lilly. Moses Demera’s 47th minute goal was all Flame Lilly needed to register their first win of the season. With the…
HARARE – The ability to play in multiple positions is one of the most valuable traits a footballer can possess, yet so few players can actually profess to be a jack-of-all-trades. For Godknows Murwira, in his short stay at Dynamos after signing from relegated Shabanie Mine, his position on the field has been influenced either…
HARARE – Califonia-based Zimbabwean athlete, Keegan Cooke, continues to push hard for an African Games slot by breaking his personal best records each time he takes to the field to compete. Zimbabwe’s lone decathlete bettered his previous best score of 5 005 points by clocking 5 127 points in a heptathlon meet recently. Decathlon is…
HARARE – The Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) will summon the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) in light of this weekend’s cancelled Zifa Assembly. The Zifa Assembly was supposed to have met today at the Zifa Village but the association’s CEO Jonathan Mashingaidze wrote to councillors on Monday cancelling the meeting. While most councillors were prepared…
HARARE – CAPS United coach Mark Harrison has challenged his players to provide a response when they face ZPC Kariba in a Castle Premiership tie tomorrow. The Green Machine head to the National Sports Stadium tomorrow in need of a confidence booster following a 4-0 defeat in their last league match against Triangle two weeks…
HARARE – Despite repeated warnings from his family and friends, local bodybuilder Victor Hungwe (pictured) travelled to South Africa to participate in tonight’s IFBB Africa tournament in Midrand, Johannesburg. South Africa has been rocked by violent xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals which prompted the government to deploy the national army in Durban and Alexandra. At…
HARARE – A number of fledgling Zimbabwe junior rugby players are making their mark in various South African High Schools. At Dale College, prop Reezwaan Shahadat has been a permanent feature in the starting XV this season while eighthman Ronald Jiri and full back Godknows Mavara have become an integral part of the King William’s…
HARARE – Tanganda United’s triumph in the 1993 Castle Cup final over CAPS United will always be one of the greatest upsets in the history of Zimbabwean football. The Mutare-based side were rank outsiders to win the trophy as CAPS at the time possessed some of the best talent on the domestic scene. Tanganda however,…
JOHANNESBURG – He is considered in Mzansi circles as the most colourful player together with Doctor Khumalo to have ever graced the game of football since South Africa was re-admitted into the Fifa family in the early 90s. He was a teetotaller through and through, would only speak to someone if spoken to and was…
