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Chiyangwa at Euro 2024 final in Berlin
Former Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) and Cosafa president Phillip Chiyangwa is in Germany to watch the Euro 2024 final between Spain and England at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Invited by Uefa...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 16:41hrs | 4440 | 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
Chiyangwa follows the money, ditches Ahmad Ahmad?
PICTURES of Zimbabwean businessman and Cosafa head Philip Chiyangwa endorsing the candidature of Patrice Motsepe for the Confederation of African Football (Caf) presidency seem to suggest he has offic...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:28hrs | | 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
SA billionaire Motsepe to run for Caf job
South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe has been nominated as a candidate for the leadership of the Confederation of African Football as the race for the top post in African soccer gathers momentum....Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | | 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
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
Sense finally prevailed at Zifa
AFTER a few months of bickering, controversy and drama, the Zifa elections have come to a close and boy oh boy, what theatre we were treated to!While those that suffered defeat will be licking...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$100 000 poured in to oust Chiyangwa
State media has reported that Zimbabwe Football Association presidential aspirant Felton Kamambo has received a war chest of $100 000 to fund his campaign again incumbent president Philip Chiyangwa.&n...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 09:01hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Incompetent Zifa councillors back Chiyangwa
TEN of Zifa's councillors yesterday reaffirmed their support for the football mother body's president, Philip Chiyangwa, who is set to controversially bounce back for a second term in office, as he is...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:49hrs | 1 | 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 exposed in 'Fifa lie' storm
Former South African Football Association (Safa) presidential nominee Ace Ncobo has revealed that Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) president Phillip Chiyangwa lied about repre...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chiyangwa is a liability to the game'
AS the clock ticks towards watershed Zifa elections to be held later this year, most of the key football stakeholders in Mutare feel that the Harare businessman Philip Chiyangwa is a liability to the ...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 06:05hrs | | 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
Chiyangwa must act on mistakes
The flamboyant president of the country's supreme football governing body, Zifa, Philip Chiyangwa, has fought very good wars in southern African football - thereby raising his profile as one of the fa...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two more sucked into ZIFA saga
ZIFA have added their former finance manager Benjamin Dhewa and ex-accountant Fabian Vanganayi to a cartel of football leaders, led by their former chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze, whom the asso...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 23:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chiyangwa launches fashion label
ZIFA have never had a leader like him before - flashy, hugely ambitious and outrageously confident - he arrived on the scene with a bang, promising he would rise beyond the leadership of domestic foot...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe football facilities backward
PRETTY ironic (is it not?) that the first Africa Cup of Nations since the ouster of Issa Hayatou should be in Cameroon, home country of the deposed strongman who ruled African football with an iron fi...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa for CAF symposium
ZIFA and COSAFA president Philip Chiyangwa will this week lead a delegation to the Confederation of African Football symposium in Rabat, Morocco, that is expected to chart a new era for the continenta...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa to take away Afcon 2021 from Ivory Coast and give to Zambia
Phillip Chiyangwa, vice president of the Confederation of African Football's (Caf) Africa Cup of Nations committee, says Zambia may yet be given an opportunity to bid to host the 2021 Nations Cup....Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 18:05hrs | | by BBC
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
Chiyangwa confront Caf over Afcon
COSAFA president Philip Chiyangwa has protested to CAF head Ahmad Ahmad over the manner in which the hosting rights for the African Cup of Nations were handled by the continental body's pr...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chiyangwa refutes Caf Secretary General post claims
THE Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) president Philip Chiyangwa has refuted reports circulating on social media that he has been appointed Caf secretary-general.Th...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 07:05hrs | | 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
Caps United to be 'punished' for Issa Hayatou defeat-- report
A Zimbabwe publication the Herald has made staggering claims that ousted CAF leadership is plotting to rig CAPS United TP Mazembe Sunday tie on Sunday in Harare in favour of the visitors....Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Issa Hayatou toppled as CAF president
Long serving Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou has been toppled by Madagascar's Ahmad Ahmad.Elections where conducted today in Ethiopi...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 11:59hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
BBC, CNN et al fear me, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, have you ever noticed that our Anglo-Saxon detractors through their propaganda outlets such as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and ...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:08hrs | | by CZ
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
Just pay them their bonuses, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I only discovered this week that bonuses for our hard-working civil servants have not been paid since last year. I really cannot understand why this...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 07:28hrs | | by CZ
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
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
Mugabe's nephew demands apology from Caf
Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa insists his birthday celebrations will go ahead in Harare next week despite massive resistance from the Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Issa Hayat...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's nephew cornered
ZIFA and Cosafa president, Philip Chiyangwa has revealed that he held a meeting with Confederation of African Football (CAF) president, Issa Hayatou on the sidelines of the Fifa summit held in Sou...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 09:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
I act like a joke, achieve big, says Chiyangwa
ZIMBABWE Football Association president Philip Chiyangwa is a man who loves to show off and he displayed the opulence during his belated 58th birthday celebrations and commemorations for his rise ...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | 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
Chiyangwa snubs Issa Hayatou
Thursday's gathering of African football bosses and Fifa chief Gianni Infantino is about 'celebrations' not 'football matters', says its organiser.African football body Caf says the Harare eve...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 15:50hrs | | by BBC
Mugabe nephew's 'palace coup' set in motion
TWENTY-FOUR African Football Association (FA) presidents out of 54, have confirmed their availability for the belated birthday celebrations for Council of Southern African Football Associations (C...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 11:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
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