BULAWAYO – Visiting Seychelles football outfit St Michel has revealed that they will employ a defensive strategy against How Mine in today’s African Confederation Cup encounter set for Barbourfields Stadium. The islanders’ technical director Brian Uranie told the Daily News during his team’s training session at the match venue yesterday that their target is to…
HARARE – Coca-Cola Zimbabwe, the country’s largest soft drink manufacturer, this week launched its 2014 Football World Cup competition. Dubbed the “2014 World Cup Soccer Samba Promotion” the competition will run until May 31, just before the greatest sporting showpiece on earth explodes into life in Brazil. Coca-Cola consumers and football lovers stand to win…
HARARE – Former Sporting Cubs defender Brian Mhizha says he does not have any regrets for not playing for Sporting Lions, the club’s first team. But rather what he regrets is leaving the game early in search of greener pastures in South Africa due to the economic meltdown in the country. Mhizha’s football career started…
HARARE – Assistant coach Steve Mangongo has defended the inclusion of Tafadzwa Kamungozi in Zimbabwe’s ICC World Twenty20 squad seven years after the leg-spinner last played international cricket. The Southern Rocks leg-spinner was the major surprise in the 15-man travelling party, which is in camp ahead of the tournament, which begins in Bangladesh on March…
HARARE – Eric Rosen, founder and club president of relegated Motor Action, is trying to block the Premier Soccer League (PSL) Annual General Meeting over a number of outstanding issues. Rosen, the former PSL board member for marketing who was ousted at last month’s league Special Board Meeting, filed a High Court application yesterday in…
HARARE – BancABC have extended their sponsorship of Zimbabwean football giants Dynamos by another three years, with the bank taking the opportunity to reveal intricacies of the deal. The bank’s head of marketing and spokesperson, Muriel Dowa, said as the club’s official sponsor, the BancABC logo will be displayed on team apparel in all competitions…
HARARE – AS Vita coach Florente Ibenge has admitted his main objective is to contain Dynamos in Harare today and then kill off the African Champions League tie in the second leg in the Congo next weekend. Ibenge revealed the strategy soon after his Congolese outfit touched down at Harare International Airport yesterday afternoon. The…
HARARE – Zimbabwe cricket players have gone on strike once again only a few days before the start of the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.The tournament is set to start on March 16 and this latest standoff threatens to derail Zimbabwe’s departure for the tournament. The players are demanding a 25% share of the…
HARARE – Dynamos and AS Vita played out a goalless draw in their African Champions League first round qualifier at the National Sports Stadium on Saturday. The two teams now play the second leg of the encounter in Kinshasa next weekend. TUSSLE: Dynamos forward Washington Pakamisa, left, tries to beat an AS Vita defender during…
HARARE – A veil of secrecy continues to shroud the withdrawal Marange Resources from women’s football, raising question marks over the handling of the sponsorship package by the game’s leadership. The diamond mining company in 2012 launched a five-year $3 million deal for women’s football, but Marange have pulled the plug on the sponsorship in…
