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Harare Select assistant coach defends Zimbabwe's Chan approach
Harare Select's senior team assistant coach, Takesure Chiragwi, has dismissed criticism that the Harare Warriors did not take their 2025 African Nations Championship (Chan) qualifiers seriously after ...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 06:39hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Harare select booted out of CHAN qualifiers
Former Warriors' coach Zdravko Logarusic expressed his delight on Saturday evening as his Eswatini side secured a decisive 1-0 victory over Zimbabwe in the second leg of the 2025 African Nations Champ...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:25hrs | 861 | by Staff reporter
International orphans shift base to Botswana
Zimbabwe's national football team, the Warriors, are set to relocate to Botswana's Obed Chilume Itani Stadium in Francistown for the first leg of their African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifiers a...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 07:56hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe considers sending U23 team to upcoming CHAN Qualifiers
Warriors head coach Michael Nees is weighing the option of fielding a junior team for Zimbabwe's upcoming African Nations Championships (CHAN) round one qualifier match against Eswatini, scheduled for...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:12hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Confusion stalks Zifa as coach disowns 3 national team squads
Warriors interim coach Jairosi Tapera has distanced himself from the three different national team squads announced by ZIFA for this week's Cosafa Cup in South Africa, highlighting ongoing controversy...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 13:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe begins search for Warriors coach
The Zimbabwe Football Association has begun the search for the next Warriors coach after they called for applications for the job along with 13 other national team coaching vacancies.The...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 20:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Muskwe's EPL dream in limbo
ZIMBABWEAN forward Admiral Muskwe may have to wait a bit longer before playing English Premier League football after it emerged he could be sent out on loan again, to play League One football, by his ...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare title push suffers a major blow
Dynamos 0 - 1 Ngezi Platinum Stars THE frustrations in the Dynamos family degenerated to another level yesterday after the Harare giants saw their chances of fighting for this year's Castle ...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean teenager signs first professional contract with Newcastle United
England-born Zimbabwean teenage striker Michael Ndiweni and seven other teenagers have put pen to paper on their first professional contracts with Newcastle United.Michael Ndiweni, Jamie Miley...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 18:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Dembare light up 42nd Independence celebrations
ZIMBABWE turns 42 tomorrow, and the big party is in the City of Kings where football giants Dynamos and Highlanders clash in a potentially mouth-watering battle befitting the occasion.It's the...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fabisch, Chunga fallout...Bunjira's book tells it all
FORMER Warriors striker and Caps United legend Alois Bunjira has revealed how Moses Chunga's senior national team career was ended spectacularly by Rahman Gumbo in a book that he is set publish before...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba makes successful comeback
Zimbabwe international Marvelous Nakamba made a successful comeback in an Aston Villa shirt on Friday night as he ran out for the English Premiership football club's under 23s in a defeat to Stoke Cit...Published: 04 Apr 2022 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nakamba set to return for training
Aston Villa trio Marvelous Nakamba, Lucas Digne, and Kortney Hause will all return to training ahead of the English Premiership football clash with Wolves this weekend. Villa's season run-in b...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unknown German, Italian coaches interested in Warriors job
THE vacant Warriors' job has attracted interest from as far afield as Germany and Italy after about four European football coaches threw their names in the hat.ZIFA are expected to advertise t...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare Warriors dampen Zimbabwean's spirits
For the umpteenth time, the Zimbabwe national soccer team managed to raise the nation's hopes only to dampen football fans' spirits in cruel fashion.While the Warriors have failed to progress ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Benjani drafted into Warriors technical team
FORMER Warriors skipper Benjani Mwaruwari has been drafted into the Warriors' technical team as one of the assistant coaches to Norman Mapeza.Mwaruwari is the Zimbabwe Under-23 head coach....Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mapeza show Zifa board the middle finger
WARRIORS interim coach Norman Mapeza has ended the uncertainty that had engulfed the set-up of his backroom staff ahead of Zimbabwe's Africa Cup of Nations finals campaign in Cameroon next month....Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:06hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mapeza in youth brigade pledge
WARRIORS interim coach, Norman Mapeza, has hinted he could give youngsters, Bill Antonio and Jonah Fabisch, a run in the 2022 World Cup qualifier against Bafana Bafana, tomorrow night. Antonio...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean starlet Chikukwa closes in on Watford move
Zimbabwean youth footballer Jimiel Takunda Chikukwa is poised to join English Premier League side Watford on a free transfer after quitting Leeds United, Football Insider revealed.The 18-year-...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Referees to raise Zimbabwe flag at Cosafa Cup tourney
TWO Zimbabwean match officials, Rusape-based referee Brighton Chimene and assistant referee Brighton Nyika from Bulawayo will be among the 21 match officials at next month's Cosafa Cup in South Africa...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 11:02hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Olympiacos target Zimbabwe-linked Arsenal star
Arsenal star Reiss Nelson is wanted on loan by Olympiacos, according to reports.The home-grown talent was handed his Gunners debut as a teenager by Arsene Wenger, before impressing at Hoffenhe...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba in another Marvelous show
JUST call him the Aston Villa lucky charm SIX appearances, 375 minutes on the field, no goal conceded by the English Premiership side. No wonder why Marvelous Nakamba's name has been trending,...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Players back underfire Loga
SOME senior players in the Chan Warriors squad have thrown their weight behind underfire coach Zdravko Logarusic (pictured) following the team's dismal performance at the ongoing continental football ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Exclusion of Bulawayo boys in the Under-17 squad 'an insult'
FORMER national team and Highlanders captain Thulani Biya Ncube and Mkhokheli Dube have reacted with dismay and anger while questioning the criteria which career Under-17 boys coach Tafadzwa Mashiri u...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kapowezha appointed Swallows team manager
FORMER Zimbabwe international midfielder Elasto Lungu Kapowezha has been appointed team manager of newly promoted Swallows FC ahead of the start of the 2020-2021 South African Premier Soccer League se...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 20:21hrs | | by Sports reporter
Prince Dube scores first goal for Azam FC
ZIMBABWE international football striker Prince Dube made a dream start to life at his new club Azam FC of Tanzania by rising from the bench to score his goal for the club in only his second appearance...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warriors lose to Somalia
Somalia 1-0 Zimbabwe ZIMBABWEAN football hit a new low last night when the Warriors lost to the world's lowest-ranked team, Somalia, in a Fifa World Cup preliminary round first leg match played at...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:51hrs | | by New Ziana
Fabisch pulls out of Young Warriors
YOUNG Warriors midfielder, Jonah Fabisch, has pulled out of the team to take on South Africa in an Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier tomorrow. The first leg of the final qualifying roun...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zifa shields purse
The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa), whose account was recently garnished over a US$518 331 debt owed to former administrator Lazarus Mhurushomana, has petitioned the High Court with an urgent ch...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso goes to Gibbo as clear underdogs
HAVING recorded their worst start to a season in over four decades, Highlanders troop into Gibbo Stadium this afternoon hoping to halt their 13 game winless streak on the road. They face off a...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fabisch son called into Young Warriors
JONAH Fabisch, the son of the late Dream Team coach Reinhard, has been included in the Young Warriors squad for their duel against South Africa. He is on the books of German side Hamburger SV. It coul...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Afcon renegades blacklisted
THE new Warriors technical team will be told not to select big goalkeeper George Chigova and China-based Nyasha Mushekwi among other players for future Warriors assignments, B-Metro Sport has learnt. ...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Antipas appointed Warriors caretaker head coach
The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) Executive Committee has appointed Chicken Inn coach Joey Antipas as the caretaker head coach of the senior men's team, the Warriors, until the 31st of December...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 21:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Methembe back in Warriors set-up, Rush overlooked
FORMER Young Warriors and senior national team midfielder Methembe Ndlovu could bounce back into the Warriors technical team set-up as one of the assistant coaches if the recommendations by the Zifa t...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe coaches invited for Uefa course
AT least 19 Zimbabwean football coaches have been invited to attend the introductory Uefa C and B licence coaching courses in Hamburg, Germany, next month. The course, set to run from August 3...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mhofu: The nation still needs answers
IT IS hard to forget the day the Warriors of Zimbabwe crashed out of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations finals and the manner they exited the 24-team foootball competition and the ghost of that humiliatio...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 14:57hrs | | by Michael Kariati
Mamelodi Sundowns courts Young Warriors starlets
SOUTH African football giants Mamelodi Sundowns have invited Germany-based Warriors starlets Seth Patrick and Shama Bako for two-week trials beginning next week.The two players are in the juni...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors' double blow
THE Warriors' preparations for the 2019 African Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals to be staged in Egypt next month have been dealt a blow after Angola withdrew from the regional Cosafa tournament at the l...Published: 22 May 2019 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
CAF ban Zimbabwe's National Sports Stadium
THE Confederation of African Football have barred ZIFA from using the National Sports Stadium for the next two official home matches following the chaos that led to loss of life and injuries at the gi...Published: 18 May 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Umbro makes changes to Warriors 'ugly' kit
ENGLISH sportswear company Umbro have responded to pleas from fans to come up with a simple and plain design by delivering an official kit for the Warriors different from the one they initially design...Published: 17 May 2019 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean refs fingered in bribery scam
TWO Zimbabwean referees have been accused of accepting bribes while officiating in an Under-23 Total Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between a Central and North African country in March this year. ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean footballer's Burnley dreams suffers a blow
ENGLAND-BORN football prodigy Tinashe Chakwana's hopes of breaking into the first team of English Premiership side Burnley suffered a blow after he was recently released by the club, which had been hi...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya dumps Yadah
PREMIERSHIP side, Yadah Stars, have been put up for sale just two weeks into the new season, with the franchise owner Prophet Walter Magaya saying he now wants to concentrate on helping the Young Warr...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Leicester City ace's easy Warriors decision
LEICESTER City's youthful Warriors striker Admiral Muskwe has revealed that it has always been his dream to play for Zimbabwe despite playing for England's Under-17 team about five years ago.M...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
German's VfB Lübeck midfielder picks Zimbabwe over England
TEENAGE sensation Seth Patrick has indicated willingness to pursue his international career with Zimbabwe over England, his country of birth.The 18-year-old, who plays for German's VfB Lübeck...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zifa still reconciling figures
ZIFA have said they are still reconciling the figures related to the attendance and gross revenue realised from the AFCON qualifier at the National Sports Stadium on Sunday.The match attracted...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpredictable PSL season beckons
IT'S only a week before the start of the new Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) season and champions FC Platinum will begin their title defence in Harare against Harare City in a mouth-watering ...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Slovakia club disown Zimbabwe U-23 player
SLOVAKIA Super Liga club, AS Trencín, has refuted reports that Enrique Ndlovu, who was called up to the Zimbabwe Under-23 squad, is in their books, raising suspicions that influential player intermed...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
British company Umbro sabotages Zifa?
ZIFA could be forced to dress the Warriors in an alternative kit after encountering problems with the kit delivery from their suppliers, Umbro. The company have also faltered on their promise ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dembare's foreign players yet to get international clearances
Dynamos are still waiting for the clearance papers of their foreign trio of Herve Vincent Mbega, Ngahan Claude Junior (both Cameroon) and Robert Sackey (Ghana) as the 2019 Castle Lager Premiership sea...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 15:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
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