HARARE – Zimbabwe’s participation in this year’s Cricket World Cup was never going to really turn many heads for the simple reason that too many events off the field hampered the much-needed progress that coach Dav Whatmore wanted and expected from his team. In all fairness, he really wasn’t given much time to work with…
HARARE – Mamelodi Sundowns winger Kuda Mahachi is expected to join the Young Warriors’ camp for Sunday’s 2015 All-Africa Games qualifier against Cameroon at Rufaro Stadium. The Young Warriors went into camp at Chikurubi last week and Mahachi was included in the provisional squad but there were doubts over his availability after his club reportedly…
HARARE – The ever-blundering Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) administration shortcomings were exposed once again after they failed to send a representative to a key Caf seminar in Cairo, Egypt. Caf on Sunday began hosting a three-day workshop on Club Licensing which ends today but sadly there was no participant from Zimbabwe. A statement on the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe and Liverpool legend Bruce Grobbelaar says the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) must be dissolved. Grobelaar weighed in on the debate after the world football governing body Fifa expelled the Warriors from participating in the 2018 Russia World Cup qualifiers as punishment for failing to pay former coach Valinhos his severance package. Zifa,…
HARARE – Falcon College pupil Justin Kersten placed eighth at the Curro SA Juniors International played at the Durbanville Golf Club, Cape Town, South Africa to finish as Zimbabwe’s highest placed golfer. The Bulawayo Golf Club-based golfer shot rounds of 78, 69, 70 for a total one-over-par 217, seven strokes adrift of tournament winner Van…
HARARE – Sports minister Andrew Langa (pictured) says government will not dissolve the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) after the Warriors’ expulsion by Fifa from the 2018 Fifa World Cup qualifiers. Zimbabwe was expelled from the qualifiers which are due to start in October after Zifa failed to pay former Warriors coach Valinhos his outstanding severance…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s top female long distance athlete Sharon Tavengwa’s fairytale run began in an unorthodox fashion in Chirumhanzu when she pretended to be a boy for her talent to be recognised. Tavengwa’s chance to be noticed came when one of the boys making up the four by 400 metres under-12 relay team scheduled to…
JOHANNESBURG – I have never been a big fan of big teams. I suppose it is something in my human nature. I always enjoy going for the underdogs. When Liverpool was dominating in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was rooting for Manchester United. I then turned against Man U in the late 90s…
HARARE – Just before the dust had settled after last weekend’s match, CAPS United and Dynamos clash again this afternoon in the third instalment of the Harare derby inside four weeks. The two teams clash in the semi-final of the Zimbabwe National Army Commanders Charities Shield at Rufaro Stadium this afternoon. DeMbare and Makepekepe have…
HARARE – So Zifa finally decided to score an own goal on themselves by having us expelled from the Fifa World Cup 2018. Our hopes have been shattered, our dreams stolen from us and our future emasculated by a Zifa secretariat run by one Jonathan Mashingaidze. Mashingaidze, stands accused of sleeping on the wheel and…
