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Sharuko on Saturday WHEN iconic swimmer Kirsty Coventry praised the Mighty Warriors this week, despite the six-goal hammering they suffered at the hands of global women football powerhouse Germany in Sao Paulo on Wednesday night, she probably didn’t anticipate it was going to provoke a fierce social media firestorm.
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Robson Sharuko SHE was just three when I first took her to Rufaro and only five when she told me she had made a choice, in terms of the local football club she loved, the latest recruit of the millions of Zimbabwean who have been seduced by the mystic appeal of Dynamos since 1963.
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TWENTY years ago Lloyd Chitembwe was part of a group of trailblazing footballers, whose attacking prowess was as devastating as it was breathtaking, as they finally exorcised the ghost that had stalked CAPS United for 16 years in which the Green Machine had failed to win the league championship.
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THE last time when someone called me a “dimwit” and accused me of “smoking pot” on the feedback column of an international media website was six years ago when an anonymous Kaizer Chiefs’ fan hammered me with a volley of insults for daring to criticise Bobby Motaung.
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IT has to be one of the finest pieces of movie production in history, the way Fast & Furious 7 provides a fitting and touching farewell, to the franchise’s leading actor Paul Walker, who died in a car crash midway through the filming. Using Paul’s brothers, Cody and Caleb, who have a striking resemblance to […]
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FOR us, this should have been a week of grand colourful celebrations, with our football staging its version of the street carnival that illuminates Harare every summer, when wild parties were supposed to make up for all that emotional torture we collectively endured last week.
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ON April 14 this year our Warriors marked a landmark day in their history, the Silver Jubilee of that unforgettable afternoon at the National Sports Stadium, when our favourite football team finally completed their transformation into a box-office attraction for the fans. In the subsequent euphoria created by the Dream Team, when the Warriors routinely
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LIKE a dinosaur he remained trapped in the past, left behind by a train that had long gone, a coach who pointed to one night in Vienna in 1995 for his finest hour when Patrick Kluivert’s late goal powered Ajax Amsterdam to victory in the UEFA Champions League final.
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I HAVE been covering Dynamos for a quarter-of-a-century, what some prefer to call a Silver Jubilee, an adventure that began two years before the world even knew there was an American rapper called The Notorious B.I.G. By the time Christopher George Latore Wallace, also known as Biggie Smalls, Big Poppa or simply as The Notorious […]
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SOME are saying it was a marriage-made-in-hell, a rookie Portuguese coach with a questionable, if not fraudulent record, being plucked from an Internet search to be handed the biggest job in the domestic Premiership.
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Sharuko on Saturday WHEN the jinx was finally broken, seven years after Nyasha Mushekwi’s destructive double strike, 2 576 days after Oscar Machapa’s stunning wing wizardry and about 368 weeks after the humiliation of Sam Mutenheri, which ignited his flight into early retirement, there were tears at Rufaro.
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THIS is a very special year in Zimbabwe football — it’s the 40th anniversary of the Dynamos Immortals’ remarkable success story, the year CAPS United’s won their ticket into the Premiership, to give birth to the Harare Derby, the 20th anniversary of the year the Green Machine came of age and, boy oh boy, Highlanders […]
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Sharuko on Saturday FOR millions of fans around the world, who have been part of the Prince bandwagon for about four decades — doves crying in purple rain and everything that made it fashionable to follow the iconic American superstar artiste — music died on Thursday.
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MATTHEW SYED, the award-winning British football writer was, just like me, born in 1970 — a defining year for the game when the FIFA World Cup was beamed on television, in colour, for the first time in the history of this iconic global sporting festival.
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ON a chilly morning on April 28, 1993, I accompanied my then senior workmate, the late Sam Marisa, to the National Sports Stadium for what we expected to be a routine coverage of a training session of the Dream Team. Reinhard Fabisch and his Warriors were riding on the crest of a wave, the darlings of […]