Columnist / Robson sharuko
Musona, Billiat on target for their clubs in Belgium, South Africa
KNOWLEDGE MUSONA led a cast of Zimbabwean strikers who were on target for their clubs in the Belgian and South African top-flight leagues at the weekend ahead of the international break which will see...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Norman Mapeza yet to lose a game
IT'S one of domestic football's finest success stories that has gone largely unnoticed — Norman Mapeza and his FC Platinum going for exactly a year without losing a match in the Castle Lager Premier...Published: 14 May 2016 at 09:15hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Dembare fire Silva
A SHORT but stormy marriage between Dynamos and Paulo Jorge Silva finally came to an end yesterday when the Dembare leadership decided to terminate the clueless Portuguese coach's contract just five m...Published: 13 May 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Eddie Chikamhi
Zimbabwean starlet makes waves in England
ZIMBABWE teenage football sensation, Tristan Nydam, could be on the verge of making a huge leap in his fledgling career after he was singled out by the coach of his English Championship club, Mick McC...Published: 13 May 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Zimbabwean boxer beats Russian challenger
ZIMBABWE'S boxing superstar Charles Manyuchi served yet another notice that he is ready to challenge the globe's best when he powered to his 15th straight win by beating Russia's Dmitry Mikhaylenko la...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:10hrs | 1 | by Robson Sharuko and Gilbert Munetsi
Billiat sets new benchmark of excellence in the South African Premiership
ZIMBABWE international forward Khama Billiat has set a new benchmark of excellence in the South African Premiership - which he has illuminated this season with his blinding range of skills and goals -...Published: 06 May 2016 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Robson Sharuko
Tendayi Darikwa's finest hour
ZIMBABWE will have a footballer in the glitzy world of the English Premiership next season, for the first time in five years, after Tendayi Darikwa's Burnley stormed back into the world's richest, and...Published: 04 May 2016 at 06:57hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Can Gwekwerere do it again, 10 years on?
ON the 10th anniversary of that mass player exodus from Dynamos, which left the Glamour Boys paralysed and resembling a stricken Titanic about to sink, it is ironic that the footballer - whose pricele...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Robson Sharuko
All eyes on Dembare vs Caps United
CAPS United rarely win the opening match of the season, since the turn of the millennium, and the Green Machine have only picked full points, in Game One of their league championship campaign, on just...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 06:37hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Costa Nhamoinesu considering a number of options
ZIMBABWE international defender Costa Nhamoinesu is considering a number of options, including extending his stay at Czech giants Sparta Prague, moving to Germany or Turkey, or returning to Africa for...Published: 23 Apr 2016 at 12:55hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Dembare to fire Silva today
PAULO Jorge Silva's disastrous short-term flirtation with Dynamos, where his shocking technical shortcomings have reduced the Glamour Boys into a punching bag, is set to come to an end today when the ...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 06:38hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Eddie Chikamhi
Dynamos coach to be sacked today
PAULO Jorge Silva's disastrous short-term flirtation with Dynamos, where his shocking technical shortcomings have reduced the Glamour Boys into a punching bag, is set to come to an end today when the ...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 23:22hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Eddie Chikamhi
Zifa, NetOne set to seal big deal
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa is today expected to tie the loose ends to a sponsorship package, estimated to be around $2 million, which will see NetOne coming on board as the flagship sponsors of t...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 06:30hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Ellina Mhlanga
Vultures ruffle Chiyangwa
A FUMING ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa yesterday questioned the nation's sincerity to helping the Warriors and the Mighty Warriors write success stories on the international football scene after the...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 05:24hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Zimbabwe, SA authorities meet in Cape Town today over match fixing
MORE graphic details of the match-fixing scandal that exploded last week, are expected to emerge today after an emergency high-powered joint meeting of Zimbabwean and South African government and foot...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Three former SAFA bosses suspended by FIFA
FIFA have banned former South African Football Association chief executive Leslie Sedibe for five years as part of a fresh crackdown on match-fixing that has seen the cancer dominate newspaper headlin...Published: 15 Mar 2016 at 05:56hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Rushwaya fixing extended to South Africa
A MEMBER of a shadowy Asian betting syndicate, which plotted to fix matches in the South African Premiership and is accused by ZIFA of trying to manipulate Zimbabwe's 2017 Nations Cup qualifiers again...Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 05:36hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
SA players implicated in match fixing: Sordid details emerge
THE whistleblower who has laid bare the latest match-fixing scandal to hit Zimbabwe football is armed with damning evidence, including a copy of a $400 000 transaction transferred into a South African...Published: 12 Mar 2016 at 15:14hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Nation Dube implicated
ZIFA have named their former chief executive, Henrietta Rushwaya, as part of a syndicate they claim has been involved in match-fixing in the past six years while the football controlling body have axe...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 05:34hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Eddie Chikamhi
Chicken Inn to spoil Peter Ndlovu's week?
PETER NDLOVU celebrated his 43rd birthday yesterday, with the Flying Elephant, for a change, plotting in the enemy's camp as high-flying Mamelodi Sundowns brace for their CAF Champions League showdown...Published: 26 Feb 2016 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Robson Sharuko
Sir Wicknell buys Warriors 250 pairs of football boots
ZIFA partner Wicknell Chivayo's love affair with Zimbabwe football is turning into an obsession with the businessman – who secured brand new cars for Warriors' coach Callisto Pasuwa and Mighty Warri...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 06:12hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Zifa outlaws free TV, radio broadcast of football
ZIFA have outlawed the free live broadcast - either on radio or television - of all international football matches in this country as the association moves in to reap financial dividends from their ri...Published: 18 Feb 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Wicknell backs under-achieving Pasuwa
ZIFA partner Wicknell Chivayo has thrown his weight behind Callisto Pasuwa and says the brand new vehicle he acquired for the Warriors coach should be delivered to the coach, as promised, despite the ...Published: 02 Feb 2016 at 05:17hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Zimbabwe, Zambia battle in CHAN
ZIMBABWE'S Warriors will try to banish the ghost which has stalked them for more than half-a-dozen years in which they have failed to win the opening game on three previous attempts at the CHAN finals...Published: 19 Jan 2016 at 05:08hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Sir Wicknell buys Pasuwa a car
ZIFA partner Wicknell Chivayo has moved in quickly to ease some of the tension between the country's football controlling body and Warriors' coach Callisto Pasuwa over a contract for the gaffer by sec...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 05:15hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Petros Kausiyo
Prophet Magaya overshadows Stewart Murisa
STEWART Murisa brought the curtain down on a career spanning more than two decades, in style with a double strike, but his feat was overshadowed by a superb goal by a prophet whose love for football k...Published: 23 Nov 2015 at 05:27hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Chiyangwa launches bid for ZIFA presidency
HARARE businessman Philip Chiyangwa has formally launched his bid for the ZIFA presidency, promising to bring light to a game that has been staggering in the darkness for years, restoring transparency...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 09:16hrs | 3 | by Robson Sharuko
Prophet Magaya not running for Zifa Presidency
PROPHET Walter Magaya, who has poured a fortune in donations into ZIFA coffers and is building a 25 000-seater multi-purpose sports stadium in Harare, has dismissed suggestions that he is positioning ...Published: 07 Oct 2015 at 06:21hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Zvamaida Murirwa
Cuthbert Dube finally quits as ZIFA president
CUTHBERT Dube quit his post as ZIFA president last night, just a few hours before the domestic football governing body's councillors were due to revoke his mandate as their leader at their extra-o...Published: 03 Oct 2015 at 07:10hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Zifa boots out officials over Cuthbert Dube 'coup attempt'
THE Zifa Board have axed eight officials, including vice-president Omega Sibanda, in a brutal purge targeting those accused of allegedly masterminding the boardroom coup which briefly ousted the Asso...Published: 16 Jun 2015 at 08:25hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Mushekwi setting Swedish football alight
NYASHA MUSHEKWI is setting Swedish football alight, and could be attracting the attention of the world's major clubs, after becoming the second Zimbabwean footballer to lead the Golden Boot race in a ...Published: 13 May 2015 at 07:27hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Dembare outclassed by Chicken Inn
IT might just have been their first league loss in David Mandigora's second coming but this was a humiliation in their fortress, with champions Dynamos crashing to their worst Premiership defeat at ho...Published: 04 May 2015 at 07:18hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Chidzambwa's life ban by ZIFA has been lifted with immediate effect
SUNDAY Chidzambwa's life ban by ZIFA, for his alleged involvement in the Asiagate match-fixing saga, has been lifted with immediate effect, giving the country's most successful football coach the gree...Published: 29 Apr 2015 at 08:39hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
At least Zimbabwe cricket is not as bad as England
IF you thought Zimbabwe's painful elimination from the World Cup was a disaster, then maybe spare a thought for the hapless English - that country which has politicised and poisoned its cricket relat...Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 16:08hrs | | by Robson Sharuko in MELBOURNE, Australia
Come on Jonathan, this is certainly sinking too low
WHEN Jonathan Mashingaidze sensed blood and launched his counter-attack, with both lightning speed and ferocious blows in Parliament on Thursday, there were shades of Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the...Published: 09 Aug 2014 at 09:14hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Reckless media statements likely to cost ZIFA Umbro deal
ZIFA appear to have blown their chances of landing a long-term deal with Umbro amid signals from the British sportswear firm that their relationship has been strained by reckless media statements mad...Published: 15 Mar 2014 at 06:17hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Can Bosso end the jinx? Match is live on Supersport 9
THE blockbuster showdown between Highlanders and Dynamos at Barbourfields on Sunday has squeezed its way onto the SuperSport menu for live coverage in a weekend pregnant with high-profile matches in ...Published: 22 Oct 2013 at 04:55hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Kevin Kaindu eyes greatness
ON Monday, Kevin Kaindu marked his first year, guiding Highlanders in the trenches of the domestic championship, by extending his team's unbeaten home league record, the best in the era of the modern ...Published: 03 Apr 2013 at 05:53hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Bosso touch heavens with vintage show
HIGHLANDERS touched the heavens on Saturday, with a vintage second-half show that had champions written all over it, as they cleared one of their toughest hurdles in their bid to end six years of wait...Published: 13 Aug 2012 at 04:20hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Another Caps United player to sign for Mamelodi Sundowns today
SIMBA SITHOLE, the teenage Zimbabwe international forward who has created waves in the domestic Premiership this year, will today seal a three-year deal to play for South African giants Mamelodi Sundo...Published: 09 Jun 2011 at 04:43hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
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