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FOOTBALL fans in this country have always considered Zambia and South Africa as our biggest rivals and, it’s not a coincidence, that two of our game’s enduring moments came in matches against our two neighbours.
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Sharuko on Saturday STEVEN Gerrard made his Liverpool debut in 1998, exactly 20 years after Joel Shambo played his first game for CAPS United, and their distinguished careers — driving their beloved clubs from the heart of midfield — followed a distinctly similar path.
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ON the road trip from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls on Thursday, as the world celebrated Christmas Day, it was impossible not to think about that tragic journey which the great Adam Ndlovu undertook, for the last time, in a life that was cruelly cut short. A life as a footballer whose shooting boots, and the […]
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Sharuko on Saturday ON Tuesday, a symbolic international match was played between the British army and their German counterparts in Aldershot, an English town, to mark the 100th anniversary of an iconic friendly football tie that defied the brutality of war.
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Sharuko on Saturday I WAS away last week, and my colleague Bothwell Mahlengwe held fort, pouring out his frustration about what he feels was the ill-treatment of Callisto Pasuwa by his employers and mourning the departure of a coach he considers a genius of our time.
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IN the end, there were tears, enough to flood Lake Kariba, for a closely-knitted community which, as fate might have it, had this year celebrated the Nyami-nyami festival under the theme, “The legend rises again.”
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EBSON “Sugar” Muguyo left huge footprints, on the football fields of South Africa in the ’70s, and turned himself into such an immortal at Kaizer Chiefs, he was recently honoured as one of the greatest 12 Amakhosi players of all-time.
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Sharuko on Saturday FOR exactly two-and-half years, from February 2012 to August 2014, Norman Mapeza lived through a nightmare — tied to a contract that didn’t pay him a cent and a hostile, if not heartless, employer who had suspended him for a crime he didn’t commit.
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AT times, during that moving ceremony, it was hard to keep the tears in check as the power of television brought the funeral service of Senzo Meyiwa into our living rooms last Saturday as South Africa bade farewell a Bafana Bafana skipper whose smile will charm us forever.
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IT’S very likely that there will be a capacity crowd at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban today as South Africa bids an emotional farewell to Senzo Meyiwa, the Bafana Bafana ‘keeper, and skipper, who played football with an infectious smile.
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Sharuko on Saturday Now, if our national game can’t write off a US$1 675 payment, made to its greatest footballer, Peter Ndlovu, in his time of need, and we see it appearing in the ZIFA accounts as a debt, surely how then do we justify the payment of more than US$200 000 to someone like […]
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FIVE years ago, within two months, Monomotapa and CAPS United knocked out two South African clubs from the Champions League and Confederation Cup in an amazing triumph of raw talent over the Moneybags of Super Diski.
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IT’S a fact that Kelvin Kaindu never finished with fewer points than the football team that won the domestic Premier League championship, in the two seasons he lasted the distance, as coach of Highlanders in 2012 and 2013.
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SIXTEEN years ago, I spent a month in Burkina Faso, a country that had been battered by successive droughts and military coups, ranked by the United Nations then as the third poorest nation in the world, where more than 85.2 percent of the population lived in grinding poverty.
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ON the long flight from Abidjan to Johannesburg in December ’98, we were joined by a group of Confederation of African Football officials, who were coming with us all the way to our final destination in Harare.