MASERU – Dynamos’ biggest enemy in their quest to reclaim their African Champions League dizzy heights will not be the opponents they face on the field. Rather, the departure of key players at the club every season-end might see them fall short again of their real potential, says coach Calisto Pasuwa. Pasuwa watched his team…
HARARE – Rising Zimbabwean triathlete Laurelle Brown set a personal best time in defence of her National Under-19 Championship title at Mt Pleasant on Sunday while Arist Koutoungos romped home in the boys’ category. Brown clocked 01:08:21, coming first ahead of rival Laura Hume (01:21:59). “It is sad to think this will be my last…
MOLDONADO – Zimbabwe women football team coach Rosemary Mugadza says while the main objective of the Uruguay tour is to learn modern football trends, the Mighty Warriors will not be intimidated by their higher-ranked opponents when they take to the field. Mugadza was speaking ahead of the African side’s first of three matches against the…
HARARE – Zimbabwean all-rounder PJ Moor has set his sights on an Ireland call-up following his latest spell in that country’s domestic league. The 22-year-old from Harare reportedly qualified for the ICC Associate member country in January. Moor, who captained Zimbabwe at the Under-19 World Cup in 2010, last month joined Irish club Belmont for…
HARARE – Zimbabwe football coach Klaus-Dieter Pagels has named an experienced Warriors squad to resume the team’s World Cup qualification campaign with a tough trip to Egypt on March 26 as the Warriors continue to rebuild under the German trainer. Announcing the traveling 18-man squad yesterday, Warriors manager Shariff Mussa revealed that since only five…
HARARE – If the three ODIs between the West Indies and Zimbabwe were disappointing, the two T20 internationals were soul-destroying. We have to understand that Zimbabwe were always going to be up against it for two reasons. The first being that Zimbabwe have had no international cricket for a year. And the second being that…
HARARE – Soldiers manning the main entrance at Rufaro Stadium yesterday denied a Daily News journalist entry to cover Black Rhinos’ charity match against CAPS United. Sports reporter Blessings Mashaya was told by the overzealous soldiers that since it was only a charity match, the army side did not require media coverage, especially from this…
SAO PAULO – Zimbabwe women football team technical director Maxwell Takaendesa Jongwe has challenged his troops to stand and be counted when they take part in an invitational tournament in Uruguay this week. The Mighty Warriors, who were invited for a five-team tournament that involves hosts Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Argentina, transited through Brazil where…
MASERU – Dynamos vice-captain Tawanda Muparati has issued a rallying call to his teammates, urging them to finish off Lesotho Correctional Services in empathic fashion in the African Champions League tomorrow. The record- Zimbabwean champions have plundered seven goals in their last two matches, including the 3-0 first leg win over LSC in the qualifying…
HARARE – Results in Mzansi’s premier knockout competition, the Nedbank Cup, have once again highlighted the need for African countries especially our treasured Zimbabwe to identify and nurture talent from far and wide the countryside, instead of concentrating only in the urban areas. Last Saturday, a small club in Mzansi’s third tier, Maluti FET College,…
