HARARE – Former Zimbabwe youth international Marshall Munetsi says he had to be patient before cementing his place at South African giants Orlando Pirates. The 21-year-old from Mabvuku was not in coach Micho’s plans when the 2017-18 season started and was not even registered in the league. Munetsi had thought that this was going to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe long distance runner Munyaradzi Jari melted in the Nigerian heat and humid conditions while retired ex-Super Eagles captain Austin “Jay Jay” Okocha completed the Lagos Marathon on Saturday. Racing in only his maiden Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, a certified Bronze Label Marathon, the Zimbabwe Republic Police Athletic Club runner threw in…
HARARE – Two Oceans Marathon-bound athletes Mike Fokoroni and Samukeliso Moyo gave the young athletes some torrid moments on the road to claim their respective men and women titles in Sunday’s Old Mutual 42km Marathon at Old Georgians Sports Club in Harare. The veterans both running under Nedbank proved beyond doubt that experience is the…
HARARE – The Sports and Recreation Commission say they will not back down in their bid to bring sanity to Zimbabwe’s most popular sport which is getting ugly under the leadership of controversial businessmen Philip Chiyangwa. This comes after Chiyangwa on Sunday sent an SOS to Fifa crying foul over alleged government interference after the…
HARARE – Zambian moneybags Buildcon Football Club have emerged as new contenders in the race to sign talented midfielder Devon Chafa, the Daily News can reveal. Chafa is currently a free agent following the expiry of his contract with CAPS United last year and has been strongly linked with a move to his former club…
HARARE – FC PLATINUM coach Norman Mapeza has put up a brave face declaring his side is still far from being out of the Caf Champions League despite suffering a 0-3 away defeat at the hands of Angolan champions Premeiro Desportivo Agosto. Premeiro Desportivo Agosto took a giant leap towards the mini-league phase after pumping…
HARARE – ZIFA president Phillip Chiyangwa yesterday came out guns blazing and launched a withering attack on the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) which he accused of meddling in the affairs of the country’s supreme football governing body. The Zifa boss was miffed by a statement issued by the SRC at the weekend which ordered…
HARARE – Zimbabwe and Ireland look forward to cheating the weather as they brace for a double header in the women series’ second and third Twenty20 games at Country Club in Harare today. After watching in awe the third and decisive One Day International being rained-out resulting in a 1-1 draw both parties have reached…
HARARE – With the World Cup Qualifiers due in Zimbabwe next month the last thing any team needs at this point is losing preparatory matches and worse still against inferior opposition. But that is the dilemma the senior men’s cricket team find themselves in after losing the two-match Twenty20 series and the opening One Day…
HARARE – Gideon Benade is confident of taking up the elite responsibility for Triathlon Zimbabwe. His predecessor Chris Felgate went through a meandering road in order to be an Olympian making it to two consecutive Olympics, the 2008 Beijing Games and London 2012 before retiring from the sport in 2012. Quitting his job, selling every…
