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ZIMBABWE international goalkeeper Energy Murambadoro is on the move again, with the former CAPS United goalminder switching clubs in the South African Premiership.
THE Zimbabwe team for next month's SARPCCO Games in Malawi received a massive morale booster when they were handed a sporting kit and cash worth over US$20 000 from the corporate world in Harare yesterday.
CAPS United shrugged off the absence of their star quartet to pile pressure on old enemy Dynamos, as the two battle for the final Champions League spot, with a hard-fought CBZ Premiership win at Rufaro yesterday that kept alive their dreams of playing against the giants of the continent.
A SERIES of damning reports posted by the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture David Coltart on his official website -- which describe the Zimbabwe Cricket leadership as FRAUDSTERS, ABYSMAL THUGS AND NASTY CREATURES -- has torched a severe storm and exposed the frosty relationship between the two parties.
SILVERBACKS' hopes of pushing for silverware at this weekend's Nakuru 7s have been frustrated by reports that the team will be without three of its top players.
A team from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Association of Africa National Olympic Committee (ANOCA) is set to visit the country on December 1.
ALTHOUGH he failed to retain the tour of Rwanda crown, Rwanda's top cyclist Adrien Niyonshuti showed that he can battle seasoned riders like Adil Jelloul and Saadoune Abdelaati after finishing third in the most competitive cycling competition ever to be held in Rwanda.
RWANDA yesterday succumbed to a second successive defeat at the on-going Africa U-19 Girls tournament in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
AFTER sacking Branko Tucak, Eric Nshimiyimana has been tasked to manage Rwanda's senior national football team 'Amavubi Stars' at the Orange Cecafa Challenge Cup which kicks off this Sunday in Kenya.
NEW Athletics Star (NAS) coach has urged the athletics federation (RAF) to allow clubs compete independently in next month's Rendezvous National.
Following Sunday's MTN Kampala marathon, Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF) officials should be worried by Tanzania's performance.
Going by recent results, it no easy task to predict that DMark Power are retaining the MTN-Fuba League men's title. The champions have beaten Warriors four times this year and go into today's game two of the final play-off series as favourites. "In game one, we didn't play well but still managed to win," Power technical director Peter Mubanda noted.
Nothing seems to excite and bond Ugandans like sports. That was very much evident during the sixth edition of the MTN Kampala Marathon on Sunday. At the venue -Kololo Airstrip, I met a lanky white young man called Alexander, born and raised in Uganda. Like me, it was his first shot at the marathon and we both had registered for the 10km race. As the race picked rhythm, I noticed Indians, Koreans ...
Expectations and a variety of options are some of the things playing on Bobby Williamson's mind as the Uganda Cranes coach seeks to defend the Orange-sponsored Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup.
At the end of the month-long FIFA Under-17 World Cup soccer championship last week, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan announced that the Federal Government was instituting an inquiry into the finances and conduct of officials of the game's Local Organising Committee (LOC).
NIGERIA has played itself to her favourite position in global matters - irrelevance. We used the FIFA U-17 World Cup to display national ethos of playing of skewed standards.
Super Eagles´Head Coach, Shuaibu Amodu, just back from the 2010 African Nations Cup Draw in Angola , will today lead his technical crew to a meeting with the Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation at the NFF Secretariat in Abuja .
In a communiqué released on Monday by the Tunisian Football Federation (FTF), it was announced that Mr Faouzi Benzarti has been chosen as the new coach for the Tunisian national football team in replacement of Umberto Coelho.
Contrary to calls from Nigerians for the sack of the Super Eagles coach, Amodu Shuaibu, and the recruitment of a world class coach to tinker the team to Angola 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and South Africa 2010 World Cup, an appeal has been made to Nigerians to allow the coach continue with his job.
SMALL businesses were given an opportunity to share in the Soccer World Cup pie when Local Organising Committee CEO Danny Jordaan announced yesterday that they would be allowed to trade at Fifa's official public viewing events during the global showpiece.
THE inevitable occurred last evening as Branko Tucak was sensationally sacked. The Croat was sacked after Rwanda's disastrous campaign in the 2010 Africa Nations Cup qualifiers.
ZIFA have written to the Confederation of African Football seeking permission to be given the greenlight for a late registration of two other clubs that will represent the country in the Champions League and the Confederation Cup.
THE national soccer team Cranes might be financially handicapped, but could recoup whatever money is invested in them at the CECAFA Orange Senior Challenge Cup.
Aftermath of the draws that have grouped African champions, Egypt alongside Nigeria, Mozambique and Benin Republic in Group C, of the 2010 African Nations Cup to be hosted by Angola, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has began frantic moves to arrange first class friendly matches for the Super Eagles.
THE Brave Warriors continue to slide down the Fifa rankings and are now placed 114th from their previous 101st position in September this year.
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