HARARE – Zimbabwe national football coach Klaus-Dieter Pagles has asked the nation to be patient with his new Warriors project after the weekend defeat to Egypt in a 2014 World Cup qualifier. The warriors, who are already out of reckoning for a place in Brazil next year, were trounced 4-2 by the Pharaohs at the…
HARARE – New Zimbabwe cricket coach Andy ‘Bhundu’ Waller says the team must play sufficiently well against India to regain the confidence of sponsors who have deserted the game. The former Zimbabwe international, a veteran of three World Cups for Zimbabwe, will take charge of the team for the first time during next month’s home…
HARARE – Changing a culture is one of the most difficult leadership challenges, and Warriors coach Klaus-Dieter Pagels is a man in such quandary. Following Sunday’s 4-2 defeat to Egypt, Pagels must be pondering if he has the right players at his disposal to fit his system and philosophy of a stylish brand of attacking…
HARARE – Chris Eaton, the ex-FIFA head of security, says reports that he might have compromised Zimbabwe’s match-fixing investigation due to a “secret affair” with former Zifa chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya are “baseless”. This comes as a raft of private communications between the ex-Australian policeman and a local scribe-turned-football administrator have emerged, and also alluding…
HARARE – Zimbabwe women’s football team flies out to Johannesburg Tuesday morning for an international friendly against Banyana Banyana on Saturday. Though the Mighty Warriors have only one competition this year, the Cosafa tournament in October, the team is not taking any chances in their quest to remain in shape. Last month, the Mighty Warriors…
LONDON – Jason Gillespie believes Zimbabwean-born Gary Ballance can become the next Yorkshire player to earn full international honours after revealing the batsman spent yesterday training with England. The 23-year-old Zimbabwean-born has enjoyed an impressive start to the 2013 domestic season in both the Championship and YB40 cricket. In the four-day game, Ballance already has three…
HARARE – ZPC Kariba moved to the top of the Zifa Northern Region division one league after beating JMC Academy 4-0 over the weekend. The Kariba-based side took advantage of Commando Bullets’ slump. The Harare-based soldiers were held to a 2-2 draw against Starbill. The win means Kariba are now tied on 19 points with…
LONDON – India have decided to go ahead with their tour of Zimbabwe in July-August. The trip had been in doubt after India had decided to put it “on hold”. India will now go to Zimbabwe soon after finishing their tri-series in the West Indies, involving Sri Lanka as the third team, which ends on…
BERLIN – Robert Lewandowski will not be making his anticipated move to Bayern Munich, the European Cup winners and Bundesliga champions, in this transfer window, according to the Borussia Dortmund’s chief executive officer Hans-Joachim Watzke. Bayern, who have just completed a treble-winning season, were fully expected to poach Lewandowski after already persuading the Dortmund midfielder…
PARIS – Rafael Nadal’s stirring comeback from a career-threatening knee injury was crowned at the French Open on Sunday when he won the Roland Garros title for a record eighth time to move into joint third place in the all-time list of Grand Slam winners on 12. But the 27-year-old Spaniard admitted that the injury…
