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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 | 14 | 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 | 6 | by Staff reporter
Omega Sibanga tries to knock sense into Mnangagwa's son in-law's head
FORMER Zifa vice-president Omega Sibanda has urged the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) to lift the Zifa suspension which he says is the only way Zimbabwe will be reinstated back into the Fifa f...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:27hrs | 1 | 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 | 49 | by Moyo Roy
Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini cleared of fraud in Swiss trial
Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and France footballing legend Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court on Friday.Blatter, who led FIFA for 17 years, was clear...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 10:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Illegal Zifa Board engages Chiyangwa?
FORMER ZIFA president Phillip Chiyangwa has pledged to work with the current football leadership to speed up the engagement processes between the local stakeholders and FIFA for a quick solution to Zi...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fifa get brazenly fast start at keeping Infantino in office
LESS than a week after Fifa's Congress in Doha and president Gianni Infantino's announcement that he would be standing for election for a third term, Fifa's administration have begun aggressively poli...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Hayatou's FIFA ban quashed
FORMER Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou has won an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against a year's suspension imposed by FIFA.The Cameroonian ...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:46hrs | | 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 | 7 | 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 | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lures world's top celebrities
THE most watched man on television in the world, one of the world's richest men and two former United States presidents have all visited Zimbabwe in the last decade, in an endorsement of Zimbabwe as a...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:35hrs | 1 | 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 | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Loga calls crisis indaba today
THE Warriors technical team are set to hold an emergency meeting today to deal with the crisis in their camp after eight players were barred from their opening 2022 World Cup qualifiers. Zimbabwe will...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:49hrs | | 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 | | by Staff Reporter
Zifa claim credit for Motsepe election as Caf president
ZIFA have congratulated the new Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Patrice Motsepe and pledged its full support for the new boss. Motsepe was elected unopposed as the new Caf pr...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 05:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Fifa President heads to South Africa
Cosafa President Dr Philip Chiyangwa has scored a major victory for Southern African football after securing the presence of Fifa president at the next COSAFA meeting.Fifa President Infantino ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 18:06hrs | 7 | by Nicholas Ncube
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 | | 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
CAF boss dumps Chiyangwa?
ONE-by-one, the powerful allies who propelled CAF president Ahmad Ahmad to power are either being pushed out of office or are now facing domestic boardroom uprisings to try and dislodge them from thei...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fifa investigating 'illegal' Chiyangwa?
Zifa president Phillip Chiyangwa yesterday threatened to sue blogger, Hope Chizuzu who claimed on social media recently that he is in office illegally. Chizuzu, who is also a Harare City FC o...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 21:19hrs | | 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
Fifa boss invites 'outcast' Chiyangwa
THE hawks at the Sports Commission might be hunting for his head but Philip Chiyangwa's fine romance with FIFA continues to bloom with world football boss, Gianni Infantino, inviting the ZIFA presiden...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | 1 | 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
FIFA to protect Chiyangwa and cronies?
WORLD football governing body FIFA are today expected to make a landmark pronouncement which will be the guiding principle in the resolution of the saga which has exploded in ZIFA in the wake of some ...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa in SA to broker a peace deal
FIFA have entrusted COSAFA president Philip Chiyangwa with playing the role of mediator amid the chaos that has characterised the run-up to the SAFA elections whose drama reached another level on Tues...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 05:48hrs | 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
Chiyangwa's legitimacy crisis
THOSE not remotely interested in the boardroom politics of Zimbabwean football are probably wondering what the hullabaloo is all about.Though one cannot totally dismiss vested interest and per...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa isn't losing any sleep
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa says he isn't losing any sleep about the possibility of not extending his stay as the leader of domestic football by another four years because he feels he is standing ...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 04:55hrs | | 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 | 8 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
How we got rid of Hayatou - Chiyangwa
The process of Ahmad Ahmad breaking the reign of 28-year predecessor Issa Hayatou for the Confederation of African Football (Caf) presidency might make for a fascinating book one day.B...Published: 15 Apr 2017 at 13:33hrs | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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
Chiyangwa attacks Caf executives
ZIFA and Cosafa president Philip Chiyangwa has branded Confederation of African Football (Caf) executive committee members cowards for failing to stand up to the organisation's boss Issa Hayatou, ...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 10:58hrs | | 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 | | 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 | | by Simba Mushati
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