HARARE – Financially-troubled Zimbabwe Cricket continues to lose experienced staff with the resignation last week of well-respected and long-serving national team physiotherapist Amato Machikicho. While players and coaches have come and gone, the affable Machikicho had become part of the furniture in the Zimbabwe dressing room, having been a member of the team’s technical department…
HARARE – CAPS United coach Taurai Mangwiro has earmarked Mkhupali Masuku to return to the club as his first assistant coach ahead of the 2014 season. Mangwiro was left with a depleted compliment of technical staff after his assistant Saul Chaminuka quit the club at the end of the 2013 season to take charge of…
HARARE – Reigning Mr Zimbabwe, Champion Chienderamwano, on Monday left for Marseille in France via Mauritius and Morocco on a Nutritech brand awareness and marketing campaign. The Botswana-based Zimbabwean athlete who is also the current holder of Musclemania Zimbabwe, was joined by two directors from South Africa as well as a nutritionist. The three are…
HARARE – Wilson Raj Perumal, the self-confessed serial match-fixer behind the Asiagate scandal involving the Zimbabwe national football team, is back in the news again. Perumal, currently under house arrest in Hungary, is believed to be the mastermind behind a series of dubious friendly internationals which the Warriors took part in between 2007 and 2009….
HARARE – The shock transfer of star midfielder Masimba Mambare from bitter rivals Highlanders to Dynamos has sparked passionate debate in the Zimbabwean football fraternity, with a leading Bulawayo-based daily paper going to the extent of labelling the player a “traitor” in a screaming headline. Bosso Live, the club’s official Facebook fan page, went a…
LONDON – Sunderland gained the upper hand on Manchester United by deservedly winning their League Cup semifinal, first leg 2-1 on Tuesday to intensify the pressure on visiting manager David Moyes after a testing week. Italian Fabio Borini scored a second-half penalty to give the Premier League’s bottom club a one-goal lead ahead of the return…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s opponents in Group B, Uganda, have sounded a warning that they want to prove critics wrong at the 2014 African Nations Champions (Chan) tournament that begins on Saturday in South Africa. Uganda will open their campaign against Burkina Faso on January 12 before taking on the Warriors four days later and face…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s women football team is now in camp preparing for an international friendly against Egypt in Cairo at the end of this month. The match is part of the Mighty Warriors’ preparations for the African Women’s Championship (AWC) qualifier against Botswana in February. Mighty Warriors assistant coach Johannes Chikaola said: “We want to…
HARARE – Newly appointed ZPC Kariba coach Saul Chaminuka has revealed his plans for the Premiership newcomers. Chaminuka took over the newly promoted top flight side at the end of last year after he replaced Jostein Mathuthu. Although Mathuthu led ZPC to the Zifa Northern Region Division One championship his contract was not renewed as…
HARARE – More than 200 junior tennis players from across the country are expected to converge at Harare Sports Cub today to take part in the New Winners Junior Tennis tournament. The event is set to start today and will end on Friday. Tennis Zimbabwe (TZ) administrator Cliff Nhokwara said the tournament is meant to…
