HARARE – Zimbabwe champions Dynamos are on the verge of securing a training stint in China ahead of next year’s Africa Champions League campaign, it emerged yesterday. The 19 times Zimbabwe champions seemed to have strengthened their relationship with the Asian powerhouse after Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Lin Lin, made a surprise appearance as guest…
HARARE – For years, Africa’s premier football tournament, the African Nations Cup, has failed to match its European or American version, mainly because of the timing of the tournament, which normally results in a spate of withdrawals by top players based in Europe. Host South Africa have already been hit where it hurts most with…
HARARE – Zimbabwe yesterday completed a disappointing campaign in the South African leg of the IRB World Sevens Series after losing 33-0 to Spain in the Shield final in Port Elizabeth yesterday. The Spar Cheetahs had beaten Scotland 21-14 in the semifinals of the Shield to be on the verge of a silver spoon in…
HARARE – Imagine Zimbabwe cricket all-rounder Elton Chigumbura one day swapping his bat and ball for boxing gloves! That is no fiction after former England player Andrew Flintoff traded the gentleman’s game of cricket for the “violent” sport of boxing. Flintoff, announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in 2010 after admitting defeat in…
HARARE – Highlanders star midfielder Masimba Mambare insists he is happy at the Bulawayo giants and will only seek a move away from Barbourfields Stadium if a foreign club tables an offer. Mambare enjoyed a brilliant 2012 season with Bosso following his move from Motor Action and was the mainstay of the club in their…
HARARE – Amid the raucous cheers of a sparse Queens Sports Club crowd saluting Sean Williams’ half-century for Zimbabwe against Bangladesh back in 2009 is the distinctive voice of a middle-aged lady sitting in the vicinity of the VIP enclosure. It’s immediately brought to this writer’s attention that the lady is not only Williams’…
HARARE – Monomotapa have elevated interim coach Biggie Zuze to the post of substantive coach after the former Dynamos player guided the 2008 champions to a top-four finish in the just-ended 2012 season. Zuze, who took over from the sacked Taurai Mangwiro in mid-season, guided the club to fourth place in the Castle Premiership. The…
HARARE – Zimbabwean Tinotenda Chibharo’s meteoric rise at English Champions Manchester City has attracted interest from a far afield as a France’s Ligue 1 and Spain’s La Liga. Now he has set his sights on playing for the Warriors. Interim Warriors coach Klaus-Dieter Pagels will want to use everything at his disposal and by virtue…
HARARE – Zimbabwe champions Dynamos will know their African Champions League first round opponents when the Confederation of African Football (Caf) releases the 2013 early rounds draws tomorrow. Dynamos will be the country’s sole representative in continental football next year after Monomotapa and Chicken Inn withdrew for different reasons. Monomotapa declined to compete in the…
HARARE – Zifa president Cuthbert Dube has claimed Fifa president Sepp Blatter told him he should have “hanged” players and officials found guilty of match-fixing and illegal betting in the Asiagate match-fixing scandal. Dube, who was addressing reporters at the unveiling of a new Warriors technical bench on Thursday, was responding to criticism aimed at…
