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Sharuko On Saturday IN August 2015, the BBC published results of a survey they had carried out about the best supported English Premiership clubs in Africa. The results showed Arsenal were the best supported EPL club in Nigeria, part of the legacy which Nwanko Kanu’s exploits at the Gunners left in his home country. Predictably, […]
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Sharuko on Saturday IN one way, or the other, it’s like a return to 2011. A diminutive football star returns home, gets linked with Dynamos but ends up signing for a lightweight club. Okay, let’s put it in another way – a diminutive forward returns home, gets tipped to sign for DeMbare but ends up […]
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Sharuko On Saturday NYASHA Mushekwi is not the greatest CAPS United striker of all-time – that honour belongs to Shackman Tauro. He was so good, both for club and country, we even used to call him ‘Mr Goals,’ a fitting acknowledgement of this special specimen. He was a supreme athlete, who was ahead of his […]
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Sharuko On Saturday NYASHA Mushekwi is not the greatest CAPS United striker of all-time – that honour belongs to Shackman Tauro. He was so good, both for club and country, we even used to call him ‘Mr Goals,’ a fitting acknowledgement of this special specimen. He was a supreme athlete, who was ahead of his […]
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Sharuko On Saturday ON Thursday, Simeone Jamanda, the original football Bhuju before Simba Ndoro adopted the nickname, died. For years, he had bravely fought diabetes and became an advocate in the fight against this monster in a crusade in which he helped thousands of others. Diabetes should have known that it was in for one […]
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Sharuko On Saturday IT’S a very controversial subject – which was the Greatest Dynamos Team of-all-time? There are many who believe that the Glamour Boys Class of ’98 was the greatest, and for a very good reason too. After all, this was a group of Glamour Boys who blazed a trail and became the first […]
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Sharuko On Saturday GIVE human beings a chance to make a choice, be it in sport, the arts or even in politics, and one thing is guaranteed — there will always be controversy. It’s part of our nature to be different, and even controversial, when choosing anything, because those differences are what really shape us […]
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Sharuko On Saturday THERE was a time when, for about a decade, Rahman Gumbo was the only coach who could boast of having guided our Warriors to a victory away from home. He led his men to a 2-0 win over Rwanda in a 2006 World Cup/AFCON qualifier in Kigali in July 2004. Then, just […]
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Sharuko on Saturday IT’S something that has been troubling me these past two weeks — why did I survive and why did Rahman Gumbo have to die? Why did God give me another chance, and why did George Chigova have to die? Rahman was older than me, by a good seven years. But, at 59 […]
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Sharuko On Saturday I AM from Mashonaland West! We call it Mash Best, when we are at our bragging best, the home of the biggest artificial lake in the world. It is home — the province where I was born, where I grew up and where I did all my primary and secondary schooling. That’s […]
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Sharuko On Saturday IF we run a football quiz, asking fans what do they remember about 1963, when it comes to the beautiful game in this country, it’s likely we will provide us with the same answer. They will probably tell us, without any hesitation, that it was the year Dynamos were born. Others will […]
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Sharuko On Saturday HAD FIFA flighted an advert for the man, or woman, whom they wanted to replace Felton Kamambo as ZIFA president, the requirements would have been simple. One of the simple requirements would have been for someone who can pronounce US$32 500 000 without subjecting his tongue into one of its toughest assignments. […]
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Sharuko on Saturday TWO weeks ago, a Euro 2024 qualifier grabbed headlines around the world largely because of the nature of the final scoreline — Portugal 9, Luxembourg 0. It was the Portuguese record winning margin since they started playing games on the international scene with a 1-3 defeat to Spain in Madrid on December […]
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Sharuko On Saturday FOR years, they have been feeding us the fantasy that football is the most beautiful game in the world. And, to ensure that we swallow this narrative, they attribute this phrase to Pele — the game’s first global superstar. The man who, at the tender age of 17, won the World Cup. […]
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Sharuko on Saturday FOR the first time, in more than 30 years in these trenches, I was called a DOG. A barking dog, for that matter. I grew up with dogs, my old man was fascinated with these pets and, at one time, we had six. My favourite was the one we called Sakonzeka, the […]