Sport

HARARE giants Dynamos have been using the coronavirus (Covid-19) downtime to ensure they move towards professionalism and attain a Club Licensing certificate, the Daily News reports. Club Licensing regulations ensure that football teams have sound organisation on five fronts; sporting, infrastructure, administrative and personnel, legal and finance. Once a club has sound structures in all…

UNDER-FIRE Zimbabwe cricket interim limited overs captain Chamu Chibhabha feels he will finally get it right with the bat despite an underwhelming performance in the ongoing tour of Pakistan. After almost seven months of inactivity due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, Chibhabha and his men were finally able to get back on the field during…

  WARRIORS coach Zdravko “Loga” Logarusic has admitted that the team faces a huge challenge in ensuring they are able to make it to Algiers for next week’s 2022 Afcon Group H qualifier against Algeria. Due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, flights between most cities are now very limited after the aviation industry came close…

  MOROCCO have bolstered their technical team after hiring Liverpool’s highly rated head of post-match analysis Harrison Kingston as Director of Performance Analysis and Framework. Kingston has dumped the reigning Premier League champions Liverpool to take up the role with the Moroccan Football Federation. It would seem Kingston’s move was triggered by Welshmen Osian Roberts…

Godknows Matarutse SPORTS WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw UNITED States-based family – the Kanyongos – have embarked on a programme in which they are helping to combat early marriage and to raise girls’ confidence, aspirations and school attendance through sport in rural Mutoko. The programme which is now in its third year running and mainly targets the vulnerable…

Oleksandr Usyk delivered a stylish and measured display to pick apart Derek Chisora in a points win that underlined his credentials at heavyweight. The former unified world cruiserweight champion moved with grace and picked punches beautifully to frustrate his British rival over 12 rounds. An attack in the seventh sent Chisora staggering to the ropes…

AFTER six years at the helm of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), Fouzi Lekjaa is now seeking to take his notable successes in the North African country’s domestic football set-up global, after he submitted his candidacy for the position as a member of the all-powerful FIFA council. Lekjaa’s candidacy, the first ever such bid…

OLEKSANDR USYK wants to be a film star after casting Derek Chisora, in a Halloween horror. Ukraine’s 2012 Olympic champ and former undisputed cruiserweight king continues his assault on the heavyweight division on Saturday. A win will tee the WBO’s mandatory challenger up for a shot at WBA, IBF and WBO champion Anthony Joshua in…

THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) is racing against time as there is now a huge prospect of no football taking place due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Although the government has granted the top-flight league and Women’s Soccer the greenlight to resume after close to eight months of inactivity, events on the ground point to…

Godknows Matarutse SPORTS WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) yesterday cleared the first hurdle towards the resumption of local football when they paid all costs for coronavirus (Covid-19) testing of Premier Soccer League (PSL) clubs, the Daily News can report. Following almost eight months of inactivity, the government recently gave Zifa and the PSL…