HARARE – A storm is brewing in the Harare City camp with coach Bigboy Mawiwi fighting to keep his job following a poor start to the 2014 Castle Premiership season. The Daily News understands that that Mawiwi has fallen out with a number of City club officials and senior players, who are now pushing for…
HARARE – Substandard football, bumpy pitches and primitive off-field antics have not been portraying the local game in good light at all. Truth be told, it has been a source of great shame and embarrassment to Zimbabwean football. Events from Sunday when CAPS United players allegedly poured urine on the Buffaloes team dugout at Gwanzura…
LONDON – Chelsea have the upper hand ahead of next week’s Champions League semifinal, second leg after holding Atletico Madrid to a frustrating 0-0 draw in Tuesday’s first leg, Atletico coach Diego Simeone said. Through to the last four of Europe’s elite club competition for the first time in 40 years, La Liga leaders Atletico…
LONDON – The last thing Real Madrid wanted was another Champions League semifinal clash against Bayern Munich and tonight they will need to get the better of a familiar foe who very much appears to have their number. Pep Guardiola, whose Bayern side play their last four, first leg at the Bernabeu, was appointed as…
ZVISHAVANE – He is nicknamed “Zizou” after the legendary France and Real Madrid midfielder Zinedine Zidane but Godfrey Murwira bends it like David Beckham. Murwira was the toast of Zvishavane on Sunday when he single-handedly propelled Shabanie Mine to a 2-0 win over Black Rhinos at Maglas Stadium in a Castle Premiership match. The fullback…
ZVISHAVANE – Shabanie Mine right-back Godknows Murwira scored a memorable brace to propel his team to a 2-0 win over Black Rhinos in a Castle Premiership match at Maglas Stadium. Murwira, who joined the asbestos miners from Monomotapa this year, got his first goal in the 45th minute with a blistering shot from outside the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Professional Cricketers Association (ZPCA) has criticised Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) for turning down an International Cricket Council (ICC) bail-out plan designed to solve the association’s financial woes. Under the proposal, the management of the game in the country would be put in the hands, for a period of three years with immediate…
BULAWAYO – Bantu Rovers were on Sunday crowned the inaugural winners of the Emakhandeni Legends Under – 18 tournament after their 4-3 penalty shoot-out victory over Highlanders at Emakhandeni ground. Tshintsha Guluva went on to dominate the awards ceremony with their players sweeping most of the awards on offer. Outstanding goalkeeper Elton Sibanda walked away…
HARARE – Manicaland Mountaineers have won this season’s domestic franchise Logan Cup cricket competition with a match to spare following an impressive 293-run victory over struggling Southern Rocks at Mutare Sports Club on Friday. With the victory, Mountaineers took their points tally to 37 from six matches with one match left. Second-placed Mashonaland Eagles with…
HARARE – If you were to introduce Aussie rules football or trampoline in Zimbabwe, you will almost certainly find a good number of local folk trying a hand. I mean, didn’t we recently have someone at the Winter Olympics, when snow (albeit just a smidgen of it) was last seen in the country more than…
