LONDON – Luis Suárez has said he intends returning to Liverpool on 21 July but he qualified that by adding “a phone call could change everything”. The Liverpool striker has been linked with Arsenal, Chelsea and Real Madrid and told the Uruguay radio station Sport 890: “There have been no offers yet but Liverpool know…
HARARE – Throughout my years as a cricket journalist, I have always wondered why Zimbabwean crowds are slow in filtering into either Harare Sports Club, or Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo. My introduction to international cricket was in February 1995. It was 18 years ago, but, I remember it like it was yesterday. It was…
POLOKWANE – Zimbabwe schools Under-18 rugby team will be looking to carry their good form into their second game of the Coca-Cola Craven Week on Wednesday morning when they face their nemesis Limpopo Blue Bulls. Coach Godwin ‘Jaws’ Murambiwa’s charges were in outstanding form on Monday when they put Griquas to the sword with a…
HARARE – Zimbabwe rugby coach Brendan Dawson on Tuesday named five new caps in the starting line-up to face hosts Madagascar in the Africa Cup opener in Antannarivo Wednesday afternoon. The Sables, who are the defending champions, must at least stay up in the Confederation of African Rugby (Car) Group 1A to keep their 2015…
BULAWAYO – Focus in the Southern Region Division One League on Wednesday shifts from the promotion race to the inaugural Machache Meats Tournament that will be contested by all the 16 teams in the league. League trailblazers Bulawayo Chiefs host Zimbabwe Saints in Plumtree in what is arguably the pick of the first round matches….
HARARE – Zimbabwe national football coach Klaus-Dieter Pagels says his team is taking the Cosafa Cup seriously and is ready to defend its title — won in 2009 on home soil. The Warriors are four-time Cosafa champions and were victorious at Rufaro Stadium when the competition was last held in Zimbabwe in 2009. The tournament…
BULAWAYO – Southern Region Division One pacesetters Bulawayo Chiefs have opened a nine-point gap at the summit of the log after edging former top flight side Quelaton 1-0 at Fairbridge on Saturday. Speed merchant Kundishora Chakanyuka scored the all important goal for the log leaders who took their points tally to 37 from 15 games….
ZVISHAVANE – Long-serving Shabanie Mine midfielder Tafadzwa “Lecturer” Mombeshora, who is enjoying a purple patch this season, has called for a renaissance at the Chinda Boys. The asbestos miners, who won the BP Cup in 2001, have experienced mixed fortunes this season flirting just above the relegation zone but have also reached the BancABC Sup8r…
ZVISHAVANE – New FC Platinum coach Lloyd Mutasa has called for a show of character from his players if they are to remain in the hunt for the title this year. Mutasa got a rude awakening on Sunday when his charges were outclassed 2-0 by a supercharged Black Rhinos at Rimuka Stadium in Kadoma. The…
MUTARE – Jacob Muzokomba single-handedly took down Triple B with the rabid rage of a wounded Buffalo by scoring a deserved hat-trick in the Mutare soldiers 5-1 Castle Premiership win at Sakubva Stadium on Sunday. It was a sweet victory for Watungwa Watungwa since they had lost 4-2 to the same opponents two weeks earlier…
