BAYERN Munich winger Arjen Robben has set his sights on taking the scalp of yet another former team in tomorrow’s Champions League final against Chelsea after defeating Real Madrid in the semi-finals.
Independent Sport View: Where are the kit sponsors?
Thursday, 17 May 2012 17:20
Simba Rushwaya
ATLIE Football Club, the relegated National First Division side of the South Africa, had a kit sponsor, Adidas, despite that they were lowly ranked in that country’s football echelons.
LIVERPOOL’S American owners have made contact with Andre Villas-Boas in the past two weeks, in an attempt to establish his interest in taking over at Anfield, where Kenny Dalglish was dismissed.
ZIMBABWE’S T-20 series against South Africa penciled for next month has been turned into a triangular series with the inclusion of Bangladesh who made a late request for inclusion in the series that starts on June 24 in Harare.
DYNAMOS will have to be in attacking mode from the get-go if they are to revive their slim hopes of progressing to the mini-league phase of the Caf Champions League when they clash with holders Esperance in the second leg of this second round tie at Rufaro stadium on Sunday.
AFTER Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk announced his preliminary 35-man squad ahead of Euro 2012 yesterday, it’s clear to see why the Dutch are one of the favourites to lift the trophy in Poland and Ukraine this summer.
BRITISH boxing is on the verge of a major split as the sport’s ruling body in this country vowed to take draconian action against anyone involved in the controversial fight between disgraced heavyweights David Haye and Dereck Chisora.
Kenneth Nyangani FORMER Zimbabwe medium pace bowler and Mountaineers head coach Gary Brent is backing the national cricket team ahead of the tour by South Africa tours next month for five Twenty20 international matches.
UNITED States-based athlete, Ngonidzashe Makusha (pictured), was a diamond in the rough, a raw talent sprinting and long jumping in track tournaments before being discovered by Florida State track and field assistant coach Ken Harnden.
Daniel Nhakaniso ZIMBABWE’S national sevens rugby team faces a taxing two-week period starting next weekend when they take part in back-to-back tournaments in Scotland and England — the last two rounds of the HSBC Sevens World Series.
DYNAMOS will bank on the fear factor that attacker Takesure Chinyama poses when the Harare giants engage Tunisian giants Esperance with a ticket to the lucrative Caf Champions League at stake.
IN an incredible turn of events few could ever have predicted, the world’s two best players fluffed their lines at crucial moments this week to help send Spanish heavyweights Real Madrid and Barcelona crashing out of the Champions League.
ALEX Ferguson has described it as the most important derby in his 26 years at Manchester United while Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini thinks his side are too far behind in the Premier League title race for it to be decisive.
THE Dynamos technical department is under fire from Zanu PF politicians for “sabotaging the Independence celebrations” by fielding a second string side in the semi-finals of the poorly financed Uhuru trophy.
BANGLADESH’S proposed tour of Zimbabwe in August has been delayed by the relaying of pitches in Harare and Bulawayo, but there’s confusion over the length of the delay.
