JOHANNESBURG – It is now confirmed that Nigeria, Ghana, Algeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast will represent the African continent at next year’s World Cup in Brazil. These are the very same countries that were the continent’s ambassadors at the 2010 Fifa World Cup that took place here in Mzansi. Nigeria completed a 4-1 aggregate win…
HARARE – Muzondiwa Mugadza is one of the finest Zimbabwean goalkeepers to have emerged from Bulawayo, but remarkably, “Lazy Mzoe” never played for the city’s flagship club, Highlanders. The former Zimbabwe Saints and AmaZulu shot stopper joined Saints juniors after getting “serious push” from his friends, Dumisani Dube and Lloyd Jowa. He then made his…
HARARE – The country’s deadliest marksman, Tendai Ndoro, has set his sights on finishing the 2013 Castle Premiership season with 20 goals to his credit. Ndoro is a sure bet to lift the Golden Boot award with 18 goals to his name. But the Chicken Inn hitman is eager to surpass last season’s winning tally….
HARARE – One of the Eastern Districts’ annual sporting highlights takes place this weekend when the Navistar Leopard Rock Open Golf Tournament takes place at the Leopard Rock Course high up in the Bvumba mountains. Action is expected from a large number of professionals and amateurs on the championship 18-hole course, designed 20 years ago…
HARARE – Folklore has it that back in the days when most black people could not read or write, an individual’s birthday was identified by a particular event that had occurred during the year of their birth. And as a result, when the time came for the native population to be issued with identification papers…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe national football team yesterday found themselves in the running for the Annual National Sports Awards (Ansa) Team of the Year award despite registering one of their worst World Cup qualification campaigns in years. The Warriors, who later made amends by qualifying for the African Nations Championship (Chan) finals, will be contesting…
HARARE – This weekend marks the end of another season of thrills, spills and fumbles in Zimbabwean football. And as the saying goes – football is really a funny old game. Never has this phrase been more applicable for us here in Zimbabwe. Much has been made throughout the week of the delicate scenario before…
HARARE – Dynamos team manager Richard Chihoro is hoping for one more twist in the Castle Premiership title race, and has called on rivals CAPS United to do them a huge favour by shattering Harare City’s championship dream. Chihoro, a former DeMbare player, remains upbeat about his side’s chances despite destiny being out of their…
LONDON – France produced one of soccer’s most famous comebacks on Tuesday to scrape into next year’s World Cup finals via the playoffs while Portugal blazed through after Cristiano Ronaldo conjured up a sensational hat-trick. The two European heavyweights will be joined in next June’s finals by Croatia, Greece, Ghana and Algeria after they prevailed…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa recorded a famous 1-0 win over World and European champions Spain in an international friendly at FNB Stadium on Tuesday night.Bernard Parker scored the decisive goal 10 minutes into the second half as Bafana Bafana racked up a victory that will boost both their self-confidence and placing in Fifa World Rankings….
