LONDON – Liverpool are considering a move for the veteran Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o as they look to increase Brendan Rodgers’ forward options before the transfer deadline. The 33-year-old is a free agent having been released by Chelsea at the end of last season and has held talks with Ajax over a move to Amsterdam….
LONDON – Cristiano Ronaldo struck twice as a rampant Real Madrid side, featuring the most expensive strike force ever assembled, powered to a 2-0 win over Sevilla in an all-Spanish Uefa Super Cup on Tuesday. It was a thoroughly deserved victory before a 33 500 crowd at the Cardiff City Stadium in the traditional curtain-raiser…
HARARE – Central Region Division One Soccer League pacesetters Whawha maintained their stranglehold on pole position with a 1-0 win over Vumbachikwe over the weekend. The Zimbabwe Prison Service side now tops the log standing with 32 points, four ahead of ZRP Beitbridge and Tongogara who are in second and third position respectively. The two…
HARARE – CAPS United Under-13 team are the champions of this year’s Harare Province Junior Football tournament co-hosted by Prince Edward and Eland Junior School. The Green Machine junior team beat Black Mambas 1-0 to win the trophy in the final. Eighteen teams from the Harare Province Junior League converged at the two venues in…
HARARE – Reigning Mr Zimbabwe, Champion Chienderamwano is living his dream after he was made the poster boy by his sponsors, Nutritech – a nutrition company based in South Africa. The Botswana-based Zimbabwean bodybuilder signed a two-year contract with the South African nutritional company last September after winning the Musclemania Zimbabwe contest. Under the terms…
HARARE – Dynamos players yesterday refused to train for the second day in protest over unpaid bonuses and signing on fees. The Glamour Boys players are also not happy with the club’s policy of not paying those players who are currently injured. At the moment the club has stopped paying allowances to the likes of…
HARARE – From now on it will be extremely difficult for Zimbabwean players to break into the rich South African Absa Premiership owing to new immigration regulations. Even those players like George Chigova, Milton Ncube, Khumbulani Banda, Partson Jaure and Kuda Mahachi who broke into the Super Diski will have to wait a bit longer…
LONDON – Peter Moores believes the “really tough ride” that Alastair Cook experienced over the eight long months between the start of last winter’s Ashes mauling and the first win in 11 Tests in Southampton could be remembered as a key phase in his development into a “special” England captain. Cook was smiling again at…
LONDON – Arsène Wenger praised his Arsenal players for creating a “positive platform” for the coming season with their 3-0 win against Manchester City in Sunday’s Community Shield and took particular heart from the team’s success in beating a fellow contender for the Premier League title. Goals from Santi Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud…
MUTARE – Buffaloes coach Luke Masomere is confident his team will avoid relegation from the Castle Premiership this season. The well-travelled coach watched his playersm who have not been paid their salaries and bonuses since the beginning of the season, beat fellow strugglers Bantu Rovers 2-1 at Sakubva Stadium on Saturday. Although they are not…
