BY EMMANUEL MARAMBE THE newboys in the 2025 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) face an uphill battle in their bid to buck the recent trend which has seen at least two of the four promoted sides in all but one of the last five seasons losing their top flight status after just a single…
By Cloud Fusire SPORTS WRITER FOUR-TIME Castle Lager Premier Soccer League champions FC Platinum coach, Norman Mapeza, is banking on continuity as the Zvishavanebased side bids to return to the apex of local football following a second-place finish in the 2024 campaign. FC Platinum finished five points behind champions Simba Bhora with 61 points from…
VETERAN striker Rutendo ‘‘Madzimai’’ Makore is delighted to be back in the Mighty Warriors fold and has pledged to give her all as Zimbabwe bids to qualify for the 2026 TotalEnergies Caf Women’s Africa Cup of Nations finals. Makore is one of seven strikers that have been called up to coach Sithethelwe ‘‘Kwinji 15’’ Sibanda’s…
Cloud Fusire SENIOR SPORTS WRITER A NEW era of relations beckons between the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) and the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) as they have moved to put their attritional past behind them, and open a new phase of collaboration. Relations between Zifa and SRC have been in past characterised by tensions and…
Emmanuel Marambe THE once-off Test between Zimbabwe’s Chevrons and Ireland is finely poised going into today’s second day at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo after an opening day in which the hosts restricted Ireland to a first innings total of 260 all out. In fact, had the Irish not staged a late revival, the Chevrons…
Emmanuel Marambe CHIEF SPORTS WRITER HARARE giants Dynamos’ offseason recruitment drive continued yesterday with the Lloyd ‘‘Mablanyo’’ Chigowe-coached side announcing the signing of Ephraim Gwekwerere, the 18-year-old son of the club’s former striker Evans. After losing a host of key players in the current off-season, DeMbare have been on a massive recruitment drive over the…
Emmanuel Marambe CHIEF SPORTS WRITER WARRIORS midfielder Marshall Munetsi says he is living his dream after he made a deadline-day move to English Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers. He signed a three-and-a-half year deal with an option for a further year. The move completes a remarkable rise to the world’s most popular league for the…
Emmanuel Marambe CHIEF SPORTS WRITER YOUTHFUL Zimbabwean forward Tawanda Chirewa is keen to make a big impression following his deadline-day move to English League One side Huddersfield Town on loan from Wolverhampton Wanderers. Chirewa spent the first five months of the current 2024/25 season at Championship side Derby County before returning to his parent club…
Cloud Fusire SENIOR SPORTS WRITER THE newly-elected Zifa executive committee has thrown its weight behind the Mighty Warriors who are currently in camp ahead of their TotalEnergies Caf Women’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers match against Angola on February 20 in Luanda, Angola. The Sithethelelwe Sibanda-coached side have been in camp since the weekend, and…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says they are probing popular cleric Walter Magaya, who allegedly submitted fake documents in court when he was contesting for the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) presidency. This comes after High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi dismissed Magaya’s application in which he was challenging his…
