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For those of us, who have refused to let memories of that fateful day die, the game tomorrow is a very, very special one.
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FOR eight years we had carried memories of a teenage Peter Ndlovu, dancing around the Bafana Bafana defence, with both skill and rhythm, for a vintage piece of poetry in motion, before crowning it all with one of the greatest goals ever scored by a Warrior.
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MAYBE, when you really think about it, our football is cursed, never destined to be a game that thrives, forever a national sporting discipline that is doomed, one that always breaks our hearts and inflicts considerable pain on our souls.
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ON Wednesday, the Springbok Class of ’95, the heroic men who powered to a monumental triumph in the Rugby World Cup that year, met at Ellis Park in an emotional reunion to celebrate that grand victory that shook their nation.
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IN just two years time, Zimbabwe’s Warriors and the Flames of Malawi will mark the 50th anniversary, the Golden Jubilee, of the two countries’ endless, and at times titanic, battles for supremacy in international football.
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IN February 2010, three months after the Warriors had hammered Zambia 3-1 to win the COSAFA Cup, Cuthbert Dube released his MANIFESTO appealing to ZIFA Councillors to make him the leader of Zimbabwe football.
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Sharuko on Saturday IT took just four days for Sepp Blatter to retreat from the euphoria of a sensational triumph, which he even accompanied with a motion picture soundtrack, to accept the shattering reality that 133 national football leaders had dressed him in borrowed robes.
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WHEN Sepp Blatter was hired as a FIFA employee in 1975, the world football governing body was a sleepy, and virtually irrelevant organisation, which employed just 11 people — enough to make a team, with no substitutes, of course.
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WHEN we disappeared from the real battles of the Nations Cup qualifiers, enduring the pain of seeing what used to be a six-game, 540-minute campaign, reduced to just a two-match 180-minute horror show, some people dismissed it as just a fluke.
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Sharuko on Saturday IT’S refreshing that a shameless attempt to discredit the Independence Cup, and everything special that this tournament stands for, through extreme bullying tactics borrowed from Stone Age boarding schools, were this week rejected by some courageous men.
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Sharuko on Saturday IT’S that awful month when the world is flooded with the negativity of the damage that man inflicts on the globe’s most beautiful game as political battles, triggered by the explosive fight to lead FIFA, reach a climax.
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I HAVE always found it remarkable that my journalism journey started in the same year the great Alan Hansen, one of the immortals of the all-conquering Liverpool team of the ’70s and ’80s, transformed himself into a television pundit, who would become the authoritative
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Sharuko On Saturday I HAVE always admired lawyers, they make no apologies that they believe they are a special breed, and you only have to go into a courtroom to hear them address their counterparts as “my learned colleague,” to appreciate how they attach a lot of value to the nobility
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Sharuko On Saturday ORDINARILY, this should be a day of celebrations, and reflections, of the 35-year journey of Zimbabwean football — from the rise and triumph of the iconic Dream Team to the tragedy at the National Sports Stadium. From the tears of Yaounde in ’93, when reality sank in that our World Cup dream […]
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Sharuko On Saturday ONE of our leading football writers, Henry Mhara, this week said the Warriors have been handed “WHAT APPEARS AN EASY DRAW” in their quest to end more than 10 years of wandering in the Nations Cup wilderness by qualifying for the 2017 AFCON finals.