Despite Nike’s “Pressure Makes Us” ad campaign for the United States Women’s World Cup run, the team missed their first three penalty kicks in the final’s deciding shootout after Japan came back twice from being a goal down late in the match. Japan beat the U.S. for the first time ever (26 matches) and earned [...]
NEARLY a week after some local sportswriters conspired to torch controversy in the manner they went about the business of selecting the 2010 Soccer Stars of the Year in Kwekwe, veteran journalist and commentator Charles Mabika looks back at the events in the Midlands town which have drawn criticism from the football fraternity.
The Zifa Board-heavily divided over the appointment of a substantive Warriors coach, meets again this morning as they bid to put an end to the embarrassing circus that has left football fans asking which direction the game is heading to.
HARARE – South African club Ajax Cape Town on Saturday completed the signing of midfielder Willard Katsande from Zimbabwean champions Gunners.
The 24-year-old Katsande, who began his career in his hometown of Mutare, joins the Cape club for an undisclosed fee on a three-year contract.
A three-man committee hearing the case of suspended Zifa chief executive officer Henrietta Rushwaya will make a determination next Wednesday after her legal team raised issues when proceedings opened on Monday.
Warriors caretaker coach Norman Mapeza yesterday said he was impressed by foreign-based players’ turnout after the majority joined the local lads ahead of Zimbabwe’s 2012 African Cup of Nations opening soccer qualifier against Liberia in Monrovia at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Stadium on Sunday.
National soccer team midfielder and former Soccer Star of the Year Clemence Matawu has joined top Polish side Polonia Bytom.
The ex-Motor Action front man joins the Polska Liga club from a lower division side, Podbeskidzie Bielsko Biala. He signed a three-year contract with Bytom and has already featured for the team in two games.
Zifa’s first attempt to drag suspended chief executive officer Henrietta Rushwaya to a disciplinary hearing collapsed yesterday morning after the national association only served supporting documents for their case on the day of the scheduled hearing.
The case will now be heard on September 1.
Zimbabwe`s Knowledge Musona was named Premier Soccer League Rookie of the Year in Johannesburg on Thursday.
The 20-year-old was adjudged to have been the most exciting newcomer to the league in the 2009/2010 season.
The coach however, said he would today finalise on replacements for the quartet of Cuthbert Malajila, Benjamin Marere, Guthrie Zhokinyu and Daniel Veremu who had been initially included in the squad.
