HARARE – Aspiring teenage footballer Joseph Mandevani yesterday fought back tears and could barely speak after he was selected the winner of the Chelsea-Shield talent search competition at Belgravia Sports Club yesterday. Mandevani will now get a chance to travel to England later this year and will be part of the Africa XI side that…
HARARE – Fledgling triathletes Andie Kuipers and Matthew Denslow left the country for Algiers, Algeria, on Monday for the African Youth Games scheduled for Friday and Saturday. The youthful pair left together with their coach Pamela Fulton ahead of Friday’s super-sprint time trials that will be used to determine athletes’ start number and choice of…
HARARE – Long-serving Triangle United forward Courage Denias has called time on his playing career following last weekend’s 0-1 defeat to Highlanders in a Castle Lager Premiership match at Gibbo Stadium. The 33-year-old forward has been an integral part of the Sugar Sugar Boys’ stay in the top flight since their promotion into the top…
HARARE – Struggling Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), who are sinking deeper into a financial mess, have revealed they are not able to pay monies owed to players and staff due to stringent measures employed by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Zimbabwe were forced to field a largely inexperienced side for the Twenty20 Triangular Series in Harare…
HARARE – Laurence Griffin heads a small delegation of coaches from English Premiership side Chelsea, who arrived in the country yesterday morning for the Unilever-sponsored Shield-Chelsea football talent. Griffin, who is the football development officer for the English Premiership giants across Asia, and his team are required to pick one gifted Zimbabwean footballer from the…
HARARE – Dynamos chairperson Isaiah Mupfurutsa has asked the club’s supporters to retain their faith in coach Lloyd Mutasa as the Glamour Boys continue to struggle in the Castle Lager Premiership. DeMbare lost 1-0 to Ngezi Platinum Stars on Sunday at Rufaro Stadium which was their eighth defeat of the season and left them 13th…
HARARE – Former Warriors coach Kalisto Pasuwa has been impressed by the quality of players that are taking part in the final Chelsea-Shield talent search trials at Belgravia Sports Club. Pasuwa together with ex-Highlanders coach Cosmas Zulu, former Dynamos midfielder Naison Muchekela and former CAPS United forward Alois Bunjira were tasked with selecting a pool…
HARARE – Prince Edward School’s sports director, Dudzai Muhomba, who passed away in Harare earlier this week, was given a befitting send-off at Zororo Memorial Cemetery in Chitungwiza yesterday. The multi-talented sports coach and administrator passed on in Harare on Monday having been ill since April. He was 46 and leaves behind his wife and…
HARARE – Gweru-based Brightwell Tendai Kadenge is now the fourth Zimbabwean to successfully complete the Fifa Master in Management, Law, and Humanities of Sport education course. The other Zimbabweans to have attained this highly-prestigious qualification are Fifa development officer for Africa, Solomon Madege and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) athletes’ engagement manager, Primrose Mhunduru. Kadenge together…
HARARE – After a blistering start to the season, FC Platinum have come unstuck during a frustrating month of July in which they have failed to pick up a win in three straight Castle Lager Premiership matches. This is the first time the defending champions have failed to pick up a win in three consecutive…
