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Patrice Motsepe re-elected unopposed as CAF President
South African billionaire and mining magnate Patrice Motsepe has been re-elected unopposed for a second term as president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) during the body's extraordinary...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 16:12hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
FIFA delegation to conduct induction for new ZIFA Board
A FIFA delegation is set to arrive in Zimbabwe tomorrow to conduct an induction programme for the newly elected Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) executive committee. This initiative is aimed at he...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:33hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
FIFA ready to lift Zimbabwe suspension if Kamambo is reinstated
THE FIFA Congress yesterday confirmed they are ready to lift ZIFA's prolonged suspension from the international football family "as soon as the pertinent requirements have been fulfilled".Zimb...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe facing Fifa expulsion?
AN item on Fifa's agenda for the 73rd World Football Association (Fifa) congress scheduled for the Rwandan capital, Kigali on Thursday has heightened fears amongst local football fans and other stakeh...Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 07:27hrs | 33 | by Staff Reporter
Dynamos, Caps United shut out of CAF's multi-million dollar Super League project
ZIMBABWEAN football giants Dynamos and cross town rivals Caps United, whose participation in CAF's multi-million dollar Super League seemed all set when they were invited to one of the initiative's fo...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Historic reception for Morocco's Atlas Lions on homecoming
Following a World Cup performance that was well above the North African country's wildest dreams, Morocco's national football team returned home to a hero's welcome.The team landed at Rabat-Sa...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | 86 | by Moyo Roy
Mnangagwa's son in-law not bothered about Zifa suspension
THE Sports and Recreation Commission have said they are not in a hurry to lift the suspension of the ZIFA board as a condition for reinstatement of Zimbabwe's membership by FIFA and will only do so on...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
FIFA bans Zimbabwe over Mnangagwa son-in law's interference
Zimbabwe has been banned by FIFA, who are demanding that the Zifa board suspended by the Sports and Recreation Commission be reinstated.The Zifa board led by Felton Kamambo was suspended by SR...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
D-day for Zimbabwe
THE Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) has until today to reinstate the suspended Zifa board or Zimbabwe faces a possible ban by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (Fifa) from int...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soccer fans threaten protest against SRC
FORMER Caps United administrator Paddington Japajapa has threatened to mobilise football fans to protest against the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) if they do not reinstate the suspended Zifa ...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:42hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Major boost for Warriors
MARVELOUS Nakamba and the other United Kingdom-based Warriors stars are likely to be available for the remaining 2022 World Cup qualifiers early next month, with Fifa pushing to end the club versus co...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zifa prod Aston Villa over Nakamba
ZIFA are pressing for the release of Marvelous Nakamba from Aston Villa and are hopeful that the midfielder will be allowed to travel to Harare for Friday's World Cup qualifier against South Africa....Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Warriors manager says they have plan B
WARRIORS team manager Wellington Mpandare says they have a contingency plan in place in case foreign/based players are unavailable for their World Cup qualifiers against South Africa and Ethiopia earl...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 17:58hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Warriors off to a losing start
Cameroon 1 - 0 ZimbabweZIMBABWE put on a commendable defensive effort but it was not enough as they succumbed to a morale sapping defeat in their first Group A fixture of the 2020 Afri...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 19:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fifa 'colonising' African Football
Former president Sepp Blatter has said the decision to appoint secretary general Fatma Samoura as the 'Fifa General Delegate for Africa' is colonialist and flouts Fifa rules.Last month, footba...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 21:06hrs | 3 | by BBC
Chiyangwa's COSAFA backs Infantino
SOUTHERN African countries have thrown their full weight behind FIFA president Gianni Infantino with COSAFA this weekend reaffirming as a bloc their support for the Swiss lawyer's bid for a fresh mand...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa appoint Karikoga Kaseke
ZIFA have appointed a fund-raising committee headed by Zimbabwe Tourism chief executive officer Karikoga Kaseke at the weekend. Kaseke will chair the committee that will be tasked with mobilising reso...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa calls out enemies to war
IT'S rather ironic that the document that Phillip Chiyangwa is widely accused of bastardising had pride of place on his office desk. Among documents that lay on his office table on Friday were those t...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa off to Morocco
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa yesterday left for Morocco where he is expected to attend the 40th CAF Ordinary General Assembly which takes place this Friday in Casablanca. Chiyangwa, who is ...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Patrick Kluivert, Edgar Davids jet into Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWEAN football is poised for a major boost as a delegation led by Spanish footballer Rayco Garcia, which includes Dutch legends Patrick Kluivert and Edgar Davids, touched down in Harare last nigh...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 06:42hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa leaves for Cairo
Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa yesterday left for Egypt where he is set to attend a ceremony to honour and welcome new president Ahmad Ahmad at the Caf headquarters in Cairo today.The event i...Published: 04 May 2017 at 14:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Infantino influenced the outcome of the CAF elections
A GERMANY newspaper, Der Siegel, is reviving the witch-hunt on FIFA president Gianni Infantino suggesting he might have influenced the outcome of the CAF elections when he visited Zimbabwe.The...Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Can Chiyangwa help oust Mugabe?
They're calling it regime change.President Robert Mugabe's flamboyant and very rich nephew Philip Chiyangwa played a large part in achieving the unthinkable: the unseating of a man who's been ...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 14:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Now South Africa want to claim credit for Issa Hayatou ouster
Johannesburg - Issa Hayatou's downfall was orchestrated in South Africa – it was during the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) congress at Sun City that it was decided the...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by sports24
Chiyangwa says he is doing the hatchet job for Fifa
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa says he is doing the hatchet job for Fifa to remove unpopular football leaders.Chiyangwa is riding on the crest of a wave after spearheading the fall of Afr...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa to topple unpopular leaders
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa has claimed that he has a green-light from Fifa to remove unpopular football leaders.Chiyangwa spearheaded the fall of Issa Hayatou...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chiyangwa to face Caf disciplinary case
The Confederation of African Football (Caf) is to go ahead with a disciplinary case against Phillip Chiyangwa, the head of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa.)Chi...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 14:00hrs | | by BBC
'Its not easy to dislodge a sitting president'-- Mugabe
FORMER Zifa chairman Leo Mugabe has warned it is not easy to dislodge a sitting president and people plotting to to unseat Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Issa Hayatou face a to...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 04:48hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's nephew threatens Caf with legal action
Zimbabwe FA chairman Phillip Chiyangwa has escalated his war of words with the Confederation of African Football (Caf) by threatening legal action against both its president and secretary general....Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 18:23hrs | | by BBC
Bunjira warns Chiyangwa over Infantino
FORMER Zimbabwe international, Alois Bunjira, has warned Zifa against overly beating its chest for hosting Fifa president Gianni Infantino last month and instead focus on development issues, follo...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Issa Hayatou pocking holes in Chiyangwa's plan
CAF president Issa Hayatou will not go down without a fight as he hopes to win an unprecedented eighth term as the head of African football.The Cameroonian, 71, is going against Madagascar...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 16:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's nephew plots Hayatou downfall
The man driving the campaign to unseat longtime African soccer boss Issa Hayatou is a multi-millionaire Zimbabwean property tycoon, who dabbles in politics and was once accused of being a spy....Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 06:10hrs | | by Agencies
Infantino galvanising support against Issa Hayatou?
Fifa president Gianni Infantino was in Ghana on Monday and rubbished claims that he is galvanising support against Issa Hayatou.The world football governing body head was in the west Afric...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Hayatou, Chiyangwa showdown
The ongoing dispute between CAF President Issa Hayatou and Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) boss Phillip Chiyangwa will be on the agenda at the CAF executive committee meeting in Addis Ababa on 16...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 16:04hrs | 2 | by Simba Mushati
Mugabe gets his 'real' bust
Zimbabwe's prolific Multi-Talented African Roots Music singer and world renowned sculptor-cum-businessman Bryn Taurai Mteki aka Sekurutau who is back in the country after 16 years in America and G...Published: 27 Feb 2017 at 21:13hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Chiyangwa is on fire
PHILLIP CHIYANGWA appreciates that there is a constituency that considers him a joke.This constituency wonders how a 58-year-old man who dresses flashy, calls himself the king of selfies and h...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When Chiyangwa met Hayatou
ZIFA president Phillip Chiyangwa has disclosed that he met with Caf president Issa Hayatou in Johannesburg, South Africa earlier this month and "exhaustively" discussed issues that have seen the r...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Caf writes another warning letter to 'divisive' Chiyangwa
THE Confederation of African Football has written another warning letter to Zifa and Cosafa president Philip Chiyangwa ahead of the continental football body's elective annual general meeting set ...Published: 25 Feb 2017 at 09:03hrs | | 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
Infantino to attend Chiyangwa's bash
THE organising committee behind the historic visit of Fifa president Gianni Infantino have promised glitz and glamour as the world's most powerful football leader makes a historic visit to Zimbabwe to...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe claims Warriors let down Southern Africa
PRESIDENT Mugabe feels the Warriors should be pained by letting down Southern Africa when they crashed at the group stages of the 2017 Nations Cup finals.He believes it was a tournament where ...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fifa's Infantino expected in Harare tomorrow
FIFA president Gianni Infantino arrives in Harare tomorrow evening and is expected to meet President Robert Mugabe on Friday before flying out later in the evening.Infantino touches down a...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 05:56hrs | 4 | by Staff report
Fifa boss to meet African football presidents in an unprecedented summit
FIFA President Gianni Infantino will meet more than 50 presidents of African football associations in an unprecedented summit in Johannesburg this week, officials said on Sunday.Each of the co...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 10:38hrs | | by Reuters
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 shows Caf middle finger
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa has come out guns blazing, declaring that he will go ahead with his planned February 24 bash because he doesn't need authority from any institution to mark his birt...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
FIFA boss comes to Zimbabwe
FIFA president Gianni Infantino is set to travel to Zimbabwe next week for a high-profile visit that has sent long-serving CAF boss Issa Hayatou into panic mode as the Cameroonian is cognisant of ...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa will get two extra places if tournament expands
Africa will get an additional two World Cup finals places should the tournament be expanded to 40 teams from 2026, says Fifa president Gianni Infantino.Infantino proposed the expansion fro...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 17:43hrs | | by BBC
Chiyangwa to invite Fifa president to Zimbabwe
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa is set to launch an audacious bid to invite FIFA president Gianni Infantino to Zimbabwe when he meets the world soccer governing body's supremo in Nigeria next weekend....Published: 18 Jul 2016 at 06:38hrs | | by Sports Reporter
Caf delegates caught off guard, says Sibanda
ZIFA vice-president Omega Sibanda says Caf delegates to the 66th Fifa congress in Mexico last week were surprised by the appointment of Senegalese diplomat Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura as general secreta...Published: 19 May 2016 at 06:32hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Watch: Chiyangwa congratulates New FIFA President Gianni Infantino
...Published: 27 Feb 2016 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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