Dunedin — After suffering a humiliating ordeal in the one-off Test against New Zealand in Napier, Zimbabwe will have an uphill task ahead of them in order to compete with the hosts on level terms, when the two sides clash in the first of three one-day internationals in Dunedin on Friday.
The visitors were bowled out twice in a day to suffer an innings and 301-run defeat at McLean Park in a rain-hit contest, which ended inside three days.
February 2, 2012 | Posted in
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HARARE — ZIFA have blacklisted 80 players, implicated in the Asi¬agate scandal, barring them from being selected to play for the Warriors until the Independent Ethics Committee appointed to end the saga has cleared them. With Ebrahim’s committee, made up of people who are committed elsewhere in their professional areas, unlikely to complete interviewing 80 players, dotted around the world, within a month or two, it means all the blacklisted players are out of the 2013 Nations Cup opener against Burundi later this month.
February 1, 2012 | Posted in
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HARARE — Warriors’’ assistant coach Joey Antipas has challenged his band of locally based players to rise to the occasion when they face Botswana in an international friendly match at the University of Botswana this afternoon. Kickoff is 4.00pm. Antipas admitted the team, which was hastily assembled after failing to secure the foreign-based contingent earlier in the week was not in the best shape but remained hopeful that they will give their counterparts a good run for their money.
January 9, 2012 | Posted in
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HARARE — CAPS United head coach Lloyd Chitembwe might not return to the local Premiership soccer giants this forthcoming season after he indicated yesterday that he was no longer interested in coaching football in the top-flight. Chitembwe had an initial arrangement to see out the remainder of the 2011 season and the coach now needs to put pen to paper for a fresh and substantive deal. However, the CAPS United coach told The Herald yesterday that he was not willing to extend his contract at the club as he will be taking a football sabbatical this season.
January 6, 2012 | Posted in
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LONDON — Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger faces a certain FA rap after an astonishing attack on ref Lee Probert following his teams’ 2-1 loss to Fulham on Monday night.
The Arsenal chief slammed the official as “naïve” for sending off Johan Djourou to spark Fulham’s comeback.
January 5, 2012 | Posted in
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HARARE — Zimbabwe have announced a strong squad, which includes the bulk of their foreign-based players, for the high-profile international friendly soccer match against Botswana scheduled for this Saturday in Gabo-rone. Zifa yesterday announced a 23-member Zimbabwe squad with few changes from the one that beat South Africa in their last friendly game at Rufaro late last year.
January 4, 2012 | Posted in
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HARARE — FC Platinum reject Norman Maroto does not have any ill feelings about being overlooked by the team for the CAF Champions League squad and believes that, like the proverbial phoenix, he will rise from the ashes. Maroto arrived at FC Platinum with a reputation of scoring goals as he had scooped the Golden Boot Award in the 2010 soccer season after scoring 22 goals. The previous season, in which his club Gunners won the championship, Maroto had been second to then
December 19, 2011 | Posted in
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HARARE — Soccer Star of the Year, Washington Arubi, is set to hog the limelight again tonight when Dynamos host a ceremony to honour players who were outstanding during the season. Arubi, who recently scored a double after he was named the league’s best player for the 2011 season and also scooped the Goalkeeper of the Year award, could dominate the awards again tonight.
But Dynamos have a number of good performers this season in which they staged a great fightback to win the league and cup double.
December 14, 2011 | Posted in
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HARARE — Premiership kings Dynamos are unfazed by the 2012 Champions League draw which might see them colliding with reigning African champions Esperance of Tunisia in the second round.
According to the draw conducted at the Caf headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday, the two giants were among the 13 teams that got byes for the preliminary round but they could meet in the decisive round before the lucrative mini-league phase, if they prevail against their first round opponents.
December 12, 2011 | Posted in
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HARARE — CAPS United embraced a new era yesterday when its two principal directors finally sealed a deal to give club vice-president Farai Jere a bigger ownership stake in the country’s third biggest football franchise. After weeks of prolonged negotiations which at times, appeared to divide the club, club president Twine Phiri and Jere finally put pen to paper yesterday in a new ownership structure they believe will take the Green Machine forward.
Jere, who up to now had a 25 percent stake in the club, will now have a 45 percent shareholding while Phiri will retain the other 55 percent.
December 12, 2011 | Posted in
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