LONDON – Brazil aim to make their height advantage count against Chile when the teams meet in a Round of 16 World Cup match tonight according to striker Fred. “I’ve talked to our fullbacks, our wingers: They (the Chileans) are short,” Fred told reporters at Brazil’s training camp in Teresopolis, near Rio de Janeiro. Fred,…
LONDON – Giorgio Chiellini, the Italian player bitten by Luis Suárez, has called the Uruguayan’s subsequent ban “excessive” and fears it will lead to the player becoming alienated. Fifa has banned Suárez from all “football-related activities” for four months after the clash, ruling the striker out of the rest of the World Cup and the…
HARARE – With the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil well underway, the tournament’s youngest stars are battling it out for the Hyundai Young Player Award as the best young player at this year’s tournament, and now fans in the Middle East and Africa can also predict who will take home the prestigious prize. Many…
JOHANNESBURG – The 2014 World Cup currently taking place in Brazil is turning out to have every ingredient of being a historic football fiesta. Plenty of goals, penalties, red cards and shocking results which clearly defy the pecking order, this should a World Cup of its kind. No one could imagine that the likes of…
HARARE – Andy Waller, the current Zimbabwe cricket coach, made his Test debut aged 37. Waller played his first Test against England in Bulawayo in December 1996, having made his ODI debut nine years back aged 28 in an away series against New Zealand at Hyderabad. In sharp contrast to Waller, at 27, leg-spinner Graeme…
HARARE – Aspiring junior bodybuilders have must bring their national registration identification documents in order to participate at this weekend’s Ironman contest. The year’s second bodybuilding event will be held at the Odyssey Centre in Kadoma tonight with most of the leading athletes in the country expected to take part in the contest. The contest…
HARARE – Chicken Inn coach Joey Antipas predicted a tough battle against reigning Castle Premiership champions Dynamos this afternoon at Barbourfields Stadium The Gamecocks, who had an indifferent start to the 2014 season, will be hoping to maintain the form that saw them handing log leaders Hwange their first home defeat of the season last…
HARARE – Zimbabwe have named four debutants in the starting line-up for today’s World Cup qualification tournament opener against hosts Madagascar in Antananarivo. The match will be broadcast live on Supersport 9 at 2pm. Lions half-back Gut Cronje starts in the number 10 jersey on debut while 20-year-old Sharks youth star Riaan O’Neill gets the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe begin their final quest to qualify for next year’s Rugby World Cup today against Madagascar at 2pm today in a make-or-break tournament for the Sables. The Sables play three high intensity matches inside two weeks in which they have very little margin for error with a World Cup ticket on the line….
LONDON – Cristiano Ronaldo scored his first goal of the tournament but missed a glut of other chances as Portugal’s 2-1 win over incident-hit Ghana yesterday was not enough to make the second round as both sides exited the World Cup. Portugal finished level on four points with the United States in Group G but…
