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Warriors date Harambee Stars in cup final
FOR the first time in almost four decades, Zimbabwe and Kenya national football teams are set to clash in a cup final when they feature in the Four Nations Tournament decider at Bingu National Stadium...Published: 26 Mar 2024 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Good riddance as Chiyangwa ends COSAFA tenure
PHILIP CHIYANGWA's reign as COSAFA president officially ended yesterday with the Southern African football body paying tribute to the businessman for overseeing a successful tenure.Chiyangwa w...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warriors leave for AFCON
THE Zimbabwe national football team is set to leave for Cameroon today for the AFCON tournament that kicks off in the West African nation in a few days.Warriors team manager Wellington Mpandar...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:21hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Misheck Chidzambwa dies
ZIFA have expressed sadness at the passing away of former Zimbabwe coach and captain, Misheck Chidzambwa.Chidzambwa died on Thursday night at the age of 66.The former defender has been...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanzibar square it off with Matebeleland
The spice islands roar into action on the 27th of March 2021 at Amani Stadium Zanzibar when the Zanzibar National Team takes on the Matabeleland National Team. A rare International friendly pi...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 17:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Kamambo, Chiyangwa take war to Caf
ZIFA have refused to work hand-in-hand with Cosafa ahead of the upcoming 2021 Caf elections where the majority of the member associations on the continent have backed incumbent president Ahmad Ahmad t...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Barbara Gonzalez ready to make Simba roar across Africa
In her world, 'I can' certainly sounds better than 'I can't'. In fact, Barbara Gonzalez has no talent for bowing to the inevitable, neither does the word impossible exist in her vocabulary.It ...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Mthokozisi Dube
Zifa to hire foreign coach
ZIFA are looking to hire a foreign coach to replace Sunday Chidzambga, who resigned as the Warriors coach last week, and have since identified three possible targets that they think are suitable for t...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zifa dumps Chiyangwa's Cosafa, set to join Cecafa
ZIFA's relationship with the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) appears to have irretrievably broken down, with the association now considering pulling out of the 16-member regi...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa flies out
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa left Harare yesterday for Morocco for a series of high-level Confederation of African Football meetings that will deliberate on the staging of the African Cup of ...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 04:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZPC Kariba flop appointed Warriors coach
Zifa has appointed Sunday Chidzambwa as the caretaker coach for the senior national team for the upcoming Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa) tournament.Zimbabwe...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zifa eye Peter Ndlovu, Bruce Grobbelaar
BRUCE Grobbelaar and Peter Ndlovu - two of the strongest pillars who held the Dream Team together in a remarkable adventure that almost took Zimbabwe to the 1994 World Cup finals in the United States ...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zifa to appoint a Briton as Warriors coach
ZIFA are set to appoint Mark Harrison as the Warriors substantive coach following an association board meeting in the capital on Friday where they virtually agreed to rope in the British mentor to fil...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chidzambwa continues as Warriors interim coach
SUNDAY Chidzambwa is set to continue his role as Zimbabwe Warriors interim coach for the team's next assignments.Zimbabwe play two international friendlies in November during the Fifa internat...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe might bid for Afcon 2019
ZIMBABWE might consider bidding to host the 2019 Total Under-23 African Cup of Nations following last week's formal withdrawal by neighbours, Zambia.The Total Under-23 African Cup of Nations i...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Infantino jets in for Chiyangwa's birthday
FIFA president Gianni Infantino headlined a cast of high-profile guests at a colourful night at the Harare International Conference Centre where he joined hands with the continental football leade...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa, CAF fallout deepens
THE spectacular fallout between ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa and CAF boss Issa Hayatou deepened yesterday, with the Harare businessman demanding an apology from the Cameroonian strongman. Chiya...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa wants to pay Pasuwa $7,000
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa insists the association is keen to engage national coach Callisto Pasuwa on a full-time basis and has allayed fears that contract talks between the two parties could co...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Petros Kausiyo
Zimbabwe Warriors step up act
WITH his Group D rivals Zambia, Mali and Uganda gearing up for the African Nations Championships, Warriors coach Callisto Pasuwa maintains that it would have been ideal for his charges to play at leas...Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 05:10hrs | | by Eddie Chikamhi
Chiyangwa, Mliswa to face off in Zifa Presidency race?
ZANU-PF politician and businessman, Philip Chiyangwa, and former chairman for the ruling party in Mashonaland West, Temba Mliswa, look set to go head to head in Zifa Presidency elections after Mlisw...Published: 27 Oct 2015 at 18:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Chikwata will rise again'
THE Zimbabwe Saints Football Club family has finally accepted its fate and will now concentrate on juniors and playing in Division Three next year.The club has over the years been buying franc...Published: 18 Jul 2014 at 07:06hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Zimbabwean soccer needs cleansing
The soccer crazy nation was left dumbfounded with no answers, a few days ago when both the Warriors and the Mighty Warriors were dumped out of African safari by Tanzania and Zambia respectively. T...Published: 17 Jun 2014 at 14:41hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Mapeza speaks about his future
Former national team and Monomotapa coach, Norman Mapeza (NM), has kept a low profile after news that he was banned from football for six months. Most of his fans in Zimbabwe, some of them who...Published: 13 Jan 2014 at 09:34hrs | | by Grace Chirumanzu
Ian Gorowa, Zifa on collision course
WARRIORS coach Ian Gorowa insists he wants the national team to hold their training camp in Johannesburg ahead of the African Nations Championships finals, setting the stage for a potential showdown w...Published: 03 Dec 2013 at 02:43hrs | 2 | by Sports reporter
'A new football family is about to be born'
WHEN Zimbabwean football lovers talk of football families, the first names that come to mind are the Ndlovu and the Chidzambwa families.The Ndlovu family at one point had three players in the ...Published: 10 Nov 2013 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Botswana based striker resurfaces at Bosso camp
ANOTHER Botswana-based Zimbabwean striker Tongai Magwendere has resurfaced at Bulawayo giants Highlanders although the club says it has finalised its second and final registration. The former...Published: 05 Aug 2013 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Sports reporter
Leaked Asiagate sentences for players and officials
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Afcon 2013 Draw: Zimbabwe Warriors face Angola
The 2013 Africa Cup of Nations final qualifying round draw took place in Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday night, with the 30 countries remaining in the qualifiers discovering who their opponent...Published: 05 Jul 2012 at 18:13hrs | | by Sports reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors to appoint a German gaffer
ZIFA are expected to name an interim coach, to take charge of the Warriors' 2013 Nations Cup qualifier against Burundi, either today or tomorrow, with all pointers leading to German gaffer Dieter Klau...Published: 06 Feb 2012 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mapeza technically axed
The Warriors has been plunged into further chaos as Zifa revealed on Saturday that coach Norman Mapeza will be relieved of his duties until he is cleared by the Independent Ethics Committee.Th...Published: 05 Feb 2012 at 05:11hrs | 28 | by Sports reporter
Bosso striker eyes a move to Caps United
HIGHLY-RATED forward, Rahman Kutsanzira, yesterday trained with CAPS United as he edged closer to a move from Highlanders to the Green Machine ahead of the 2012 domestic football season. The ...Published: 19 Jan 2012 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors slip four more places on the FIFA World rankings
Zimbabwe Warriors have continued their slide down the Fifa World Rankings after the latest list was published by the sport's governing body on Wednesday.Normal Mapeza's men have slipped anoth...Published: 18 Jan 2012 at 10:07hrs | | by Moyo Roy
South African football such a shame
South Africa football is one of mixed fortunes both literally and figuratively. The game is moneyed and success is scarce. Who is to blame? Let us start pointing fingers as usual.I would love ...Published: 17 Jan 2012 at 15:53hrs | | by Tse Ndex
FC Platinum, Chicken Inn in player wrangle
THE stage has been set for a show down between two premiership clubs over allegations that premiership cheque book side FC Platinum invited three Chicken Inn players for trials without the clubs appro...Published: 14 Dec 2011 at 06:26hrs | | by Mathew Ngwenya
Bosso fires Mr Cooper as coach
THE Highlanders executive has reportedly agreed not to renew the contracts of head coach Mkhuphali "Mr Cooper" Masuku and team manager Jerry Sibanda which are due to expire at the end of this m...Published: 07 Dec 2011 at 06:09hrs | 5 | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Warriors dumped out of Cecafa
Uganda 1 - 0 ZimbabweZIMBABWE'S campaign at the Cecafa Tuskers Senior Challenge Cup came to a dead end when they succumbed to Uganda in a lively quarter-final tie in Dar-es-Salaam yesterday...Published: 07 Dec 2011 at 06:19hrs | | by Sports reporter
Warriors stun Tanzania to quality
Zimbabwe turned on the style to stun champions Tanzania 2-1 yesterday and qualify for the last eight of this year’s Cecafa Tusker Senior Challenge Cup in Dar es Salaam.Hosts ...Published: 04 Dec 2011 at 07:11hrs | | by Sports reporter
Warriors lose 2 - nil to Rwanda
Rwanda's Amavubi Stars are through to the quarterfinals of this year's Cecafa Tusker Challenge Cup after outclassing Zimbabwe 2-0 in their second Group A match here yesterday.Meddie Kagere sc...Published: 29 Nov 2011 at 22:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors off to a good start
The Zimbabwe Warriors registered their first win at the Cecafa Tusker Challenge Cup after beating Djibouti 2-nil in their first group match.FC Platinum striker, Donald Ngoma and Gunners captai...Published: 28 Nov 2011 at 18:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
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