HARARE – Sport minister Makhosini Hlongwane yesterday launched a thinly-veiled attack on the Philip Chiyangwa-led Zifa board saying it risks “killing” the local game if it continued on a “political” warpath with its perceived rivals. His ringing warning comes as the football-governing body has handed a spate of suspensions and thrown the Castle Premier…
HARARE – Castle Lager Premier Soccer League champions CAPS United and runners-up FC Platinum dominate the 2016 Soccer Stars of the Year list selected yesterday. The two teams provided three players each with the Soccer Star of the Year and his two runners-up set to be announced at a banquet slated for Friday in the…
GWERU – Champions CAPS United captain Moses Muchenje has expressed gratitude to his teammates in the aftermath of the club winning its fifth league title on Saturday. The Green Machine needed an outright victory to be confirmed league champions going into the last match of the season against Chapungu at Ascot Stadium on Saturday. Lloyd…
HARARE – After watching a single training session from the terraces, former Prince Edward School student Tamuka “Teabags” Masamba totally fell in love with water polo. Having been a swimmer right from childhood, Masamba was fascinated by the sport and the next day he had joined his school team. As a strong swimmer whose favourite…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) is pushing for the arrest of former president Cuthbert Dube following his failure to provide written response on how his former executive ended up accruing a debt of $7 million. Ex-president Dube and his former board were given seven days to explain the $7 million debt that the association…
GWERU – Lloyd Chitembwe, on Saturday etched his name in the history books of CAPS United — becoming the first to win the league title at CAPS United both as a player and coach. Ascot Stadium, only 4km from the Gweru central business district was the venue — and a victory at the end of…
ASCOT STADIUM – CAPS United are the 2016 Castle Lager Premier League champions. Fans yesterday buzzed with renewed euphoria after their team lifted the 2016 Castle Lager Premiership. Even if the queen of England was to make a surprise visit to Gweru yesterday, only a handful of people would have noticed, as CAPS supporters laid…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has lifted the suspension of CAPS United board chairperson Lewis Uriri and appointed him to be a part of the playoffs committee following resolutions at a board meeting held in Harare yesterday. Uriri was slapped with a ban after an alleged breach of the provisions of Article 13 (a)…
HARARE – Italy-based striker Salade Machemba’s ambition growing up in Zimbabwe was to earn big bucks and somewhere along the way enrol for an accounting degree to fulfil that goal . Well, that was before a five-a-side social match in Manchester landed him onto the radar of the Under-21 side of English Premier Soccer League…
HARARE – FC Platinum and Tsholotsho find themselves in a similar predicament they were at this time of the year last season but Lizwe Sweswe, the Bulawayo side’s coach, believes the team from Zvishavane are more under pressure than they are. “We have been in this situation before, surviving relegation right on the last day,…
