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Sharuko On Saturday WHO is the genius, who really keeps coming up with these amazing scripts when it comes to our football? Like, somehow, bringing Cameroon into the equation, with the Land of the Indomitable Lions, suddenly becoming the location of the sum of all our hopes, and the collection of all our fears. As […]
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Sharuko On Saturday OF course, it was coming, just like the reality the hapless Zdravko Logarusic would not only fail, but break all sorts of records in his adventure of infamy along the way. Just like the reality, Norman Mapeza had taken a huge gamble, which could backfire terribly, and leave a stain on his […]
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Sharuko On Saturday EITHER through our sheer ignorance, youthful innocence or just raw exuberance, we actually thought teachers didn’t die, back in the days when we were kids. Somehow, we even believed that, unlike the rest of us, they were gifted with the power of eternal life, supermen and women, who lived forever. A special […]
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Eddie Chikamhi Senior Sports Reporter AFTER almost two years of inactivity, the Premier Soccer League championship race is expected to explode back into life again, with the kickoff of the 2021-2022 marathon, set for next Saturday. The Premier Soccer League yesterday announced the fixtures to allow the teams to prepare following the successful hosting of […]
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Sharuko on Saturday SO, our report card finally came out this week and, as we all feared, it made miserable reading, with our Warriors plummeting down the FIFA world rankings. We now find themselves pegged at number 118. That’s five places down, from our previous ranking, of 113, during the month of September, as we […]
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Sharuko On Saturday ZHENYA died, it was around midday, on December 28, 1941, yet another human statistic, in the catastrophe which consumed the ‘City of the Dead.’ The following month, her grandmother, Yevdokiya Grigorievna died, it was around 3pm, on January 25, 1942. By May, that year, five other members of the family were also […]
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Sharuko On Saturday IT was on the shores of the Atlantic, where he made his debut, on the big stage, which comes with playing either in an AFCON, or World Cup, qualifier. Just three months earlier, he had waved goodbye to his teenage adventure. And, if he needed any reminder of the massive responsibility, which […]
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Sharuko On Saturday IN the shadow of greatness, amid global celebrations triggered by the arrival of world football’s next King, he was born. Brazil had just won their first World Cup title in Sweden the previous year, and in the process, the Samba Boys had introduced Pele, the teenage genius anointed to the King of […]
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MADINDA NDLOVU crying, Moses Chunga smiling, King George celebrating, somewhere in his heavenly kingdom, where he now resides among the angels.
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Sharuko On Saturday FROM Prince to pauper, they exploded, as a tidal wave of national pride, swept through their veins, and stirred their vast nest of emotions, into ecstasy. And, from the Pope in Rome, to the London commentator who calls himself the football poet, whose real name is Peter Drury, they united in prayer. […]
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IT was the ultimate fantasy road trip, using his vintage 1936 Lanz Bulldog tractor, towing his makeshift house on wheels, across four countries, on a World Cup adventure to Russia.
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Sharuko On Saturday ON August 30, 2002, Arsenal’s revolution swept English football into a new world when the Gunners became the first club to field nine black players in their starting XI. Captain Patrick Vieira, Lauren, Sol Campbell, Ashley Cole, Gilberto Silva, Sylvian Wiltord, Thierry Henry, Nwanko Kanu and Kolo Toure all made the starting […]
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Sharuko On Saturday FOR Peter Ndlovu, it was the beginning of immortality — the age he finally dragged his country over the line after successive generations of Warriors had failed to clear the final hurdle. The Flying Elephant was 30, when AFCON qualification was secured, in 2003. For Sunday Chidzambwa, it was the beginning of […]
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Sharuko on Saturday IT’S a pity Augustine Moyo, the greatest daredevil I have had the privilege to know and befriend, won’t be there when it finally happens. A larger-than-life character, who lived on the edge and in the fast lane, with a love affair with fast cars and football, he was someone who loved life […]
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Sharuko On Saturday THERE is a constituency, including some desktop spin doctors, which believes it’s a romance whose roots were with the Dream Team — a product of a combination of both rejection and frustration. One born out of convenience rather than necessity. When the sun was beginning to set on the career of this […]