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Mckop honoured to serve Zimbabwe
Pernell Mckop has expressed deep honor and excitement at being invited to join Warriors coach Michael Nees’ staff as the goalkeepers’ coach. Mckop, a former Zimbabwe youth international, d...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 10:06hrs | 655 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors squad named
Warriors coach Michael Nees has named a 23-man squad for the upcoming AFCON 2025 qualifiers against Kenya and Cameroon, emphasizing that he is not interested in experiments for these crucial matches. ...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 07:43hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's McKop a huge asset for high-flying Stellies
ZIMBABWEAN goalkeeper coach Pernell 'Makhiwa' McKop has inspired the high-riding Premiership side Stellenbosch, who will debut in Africa next season.Stellenbosch FC have been one of the star P...Published: 28 May 2024 at 10:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Where are the white players in Zimbabwe football?
COULD it be a true representation of the country's demographics, could it have something to do with negative perception especially on the financial side, could it be deep rooted segregation or i...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:42hrs | 11 | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Zimbabwe Saints seeks to rise from the dust
The once mighty Zimbabwe Saints who have just become a memory in top flight football have set out an ambitious programme of reviving the former Bulawayo giants.There is a dusty pitch and a tea...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 20:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Alexander Maseko absolves John Sibanda
ZIMBABWE looked set to beat Congo-Brazzaville on 14 July 1991 to set a last Group F win and qualify situation against Malawi in Lilongwe two weeks later in the build up to the 1992 Africa Cup of Natio...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Rahman Gumbo ended Chunga’s career'
ONE of the finest footballers to ever emerge from Zimbabwe Moses "Bambo" Chunga's national team career was ended by former Highlanders' midfield kingpin Rahman Gumbo. Chunga, a dribbling wizar...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 22:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Knox knocks back at Warriors
GOLDEN Arrows forward Knox Mutizwa is excited that his form has finally won him recognition from national team coaches and he has promised to repay head coach Sunday Chidzambwa's faith in him....Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
German starlet for Warriors
HIS father Max Makanza Lunga is widely considered as one of Zimbabwe's finest football exports to Europe after a successful career with German side Bonner SC, where he scored 41 goals in 188 games fro...Published: 06 May 2018 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Saints set for comeback
FORMER Premiership champions Zimbabwe Saints are set to bounce back from the dead with the help of investors who have shown interest to acquire shares from the Bulawayo club.Chauya Chikwata co...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chauya Chikwata revival on the cards
STAKEHOLDERS at the now-defunct football giants, Zimbabwe Saints have been invited to a meeting at to plot the resuscitation the club under the banner of a private company, which was dissolved a few y...Published: 09 Jan 2018 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso can go Chikwata way
HIGHLANDERS chief executive officer Nhlanhla Dube has conceded that if they fail to make drastic decisions, the Bulawayo football giants are bound to go the Zimbabwe Saints way.Saints, fondly ...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
When Peter Ndlovu and Bruce Grobbelaar made Zimbabwe dare to dream
The following is an extract from Ian Hawkey's article from Issue Nine of the Blizzard, published in June 2013. The Blizzard is a quarterly football journal available from ...Published: 24 May 2017 at 08:52hrs | | by Ian Hawkey
Bruce Grobbelaar wants to coach Zimbabwe Warriors
AFTER having been a member and the driving force behind the famous Reinhard Fabisch's "Dream Team" of the early 1990s, legendary former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce "Jungleman" Grobbelaar would like...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Gibson Homela destroyed Zimbabwe Saints'
Jethro "Chemmy" Hunidzarira will forever regret the day Gibson Homela returned to the Zimbabwe Saints technical department in 1988.Hunidzarira was a key member of that 1988 championship winnin...Published: 16 Feb 2015 at 11:18hrs | | 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
Peter Ndlovu appointment at Mamelodi Sundowns hailed
PETER Ndlovu's appointment as manager of the Mamelodi Sundowns first team has been hailed.Ndlovu, one of the finest exports to come out of Africa and play for over a decade at the highes...Published: 01 Aug 2013 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Sports reporter
Man kills daughter-in-law over 2kgs of sugar, jailed 7 years
AN elderly Bulawayo, Gene Alexandra McKop (67), who killed his daughter-in-law during a fight over a two kilogramme pack of sugar was beginning a seven-year jail term last Friday.High Court J...Published: 13 May 2013 at 06:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mamelodi Sundowns declare war on Bosso
MAMELODI Sundowns have declared war on Highlanders when the two Southern African giants clash in a potentially explosive soccer international friendly in two weeks' time at Barbourfields Stadium....Published: 17 Jan 2013 at 04:59hrs | | by Sports reporter
Man kills daughter-in-law during a fight over sugar
IN an incident that left residents of Bulawayo's Sauerstown suburb shocked, a man believed to be in his 70s allegedly killed his daughter-in-law during a fight over sugar. The amount of sugar in...Published: 02 Aug 2012 at 04:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Former Bosso technical advisor's book now on sale
Keutsepilemang Ndebele a Professional Football Coach and Football Coaches Instructor, holding an international Advanced Diploma of Foreign Coaches and Trainers on Brazilian Football obtained from Bra...Published: 06 Jun 2012 at 09:05hrs | | by Moyo Roy
We will never trust the 'iron lady' with our balls again
When Henrietta Rushwaya was appointed ZIFA CEO, Zimbabweans hoped a woman running the country's football-governing body would bring sanity, stability to the beautiful game as well as champion the caus...Published: 06 Feb 2012 at 15:32hrs | | by Anonymous
The Legend Has Spoken; My man McKop
"In my days the toughest opponents I faced were too many and we had true legends that played diski so to single out only one would be doing a disservice to all the greats of Zimbabwean football, but ...Published: 15 Nov 2011 at 18:00hrs | 1 | by Tse Ndex
The Highlanders Great Initiative
Sydney, Netsai, Mercedes, Titus, Rahman and Tito Do you remember the songs 'Badlala njani ibhola, IBosso siyizwa ngokuskowa, Ngubani owayekhona'? There...Published: 24 Oct 2011 at 08:45hrs | 3 | by Tse Ndex
Where are they Now - Henry & Pernell Mckop
How many great footballers had an equally talented brother? Jack and Bobby spring to mind but Parnell and Henry? Normally mention Parnell and visions of a bearded gentleman in Avondale, home rule rall...Published: 24 Jul 2011 at 10:19hrs | 63 | by Sean Fitzptrick
The clash of Bulawayo comes alive on Sunday as Bosso takes on Chikwata
Yet another exhilarating Bulawayo derby is in the offing as perennial rivals Highlanders and Premiership returnees Zimbabwe Saints lock horns at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday.The first "tur...Published: 08 Jun 2011 at 05:12hrs | | by Fan Gumbo
Chauya Chikwata
Chikwata bounced back into the top-flight league through financial muscle after they bought Eagles franchise. The club sunk into the unfashionable world of Division One in 2006 when Lindile Dube,...Published: 17 Feb 2011 at 10:38hrs | | by Byo24News
Fabisch academy to be launched
A school of football in honour of the late former Zimbabwe coach Reinhard Fabisch is to be launched in the capital tomorrow. Despite failing to qualify for either the African ...Published: 02 Dec 2010 at 21:28hrs | | by Sports Reporter
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