The farce that is at ZIFA House continued on Friday as the Zimbabwe national team failed to travel again. We are told after having their flight postponed from Thursday for the game against Guinea in Conakry, they will not be able to travel on Friday at 1pm. Now they will leave for the 2014 World [...]
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Zimbabwe Survive Late Scare To Beat Bostwana
Zimbabwe survived a late scare from Botswana to win 2-1 in a international friendly played at Rufaro Stadium. In a match that was played before a small crowd of about 5,000, Zimbabwe fell behind early on to a Lemponye Tsiriletsho strike in the fifth minute. Klaus-Dieter Pagels’s me got back into it in the 18th [...]
Ballon D’Or Farce: Matongorere In Trouble As ZIFA Investigations Continue
The cross-hairs on ZIFA Technical Director Nelson Matongorere after it emerged last week that he had voted both as captain and coach the Zimbabwe national team the FIFA Ballon D’Or vote. While Matongorere denies the vote it would appear as people within ZIFA believe that he was the one who voted after former coach Rahman [...]
ZIFA Releases Final List Of Fines And Suspensions; New Technical Team
ZIFA has released its final list of suspensions affecting players and officials involved in the Asiagate scandal. As we had indicated earlier today the majority of players will get away with fines and suspended sentences. The three types of ban include wholly suspended sentences; wholly suspended sentences with a fine; and effective bans. The sentences [...]
Asiagate: Unofficial Latest Banned List
An unofficial list of the latest bans handed out by ZIFA to players and officials it says were complicit in the Asiagate scandal has been leaked. Already 15 names have been put on the life ban list including former CEO Henrietta Rushwaya and former national coach Sunday Chidzambwa. Now various bans have been handed to [...]
Zimbabwe Name Provisional 24-Man Squad For Angola Match
ZIFA has named the provisional 24-man squad for next month’s match against Angola. Zimbabwe are just 90 minutes away from securing a place to the Africa Cup of Nations 2013 edition in South Africa and need to make sure that they win, draw or lose by less than 2 goals without scoring or that they [...]
A Moment With… Tinotenda Chibharo (Manchester City Player)
Tinotenda Chibharo is a 19 years old Zimbabwean football player with English champions manchester City. The youngest in a family of 11 which, he started playing soccer at the age of 7 and always had a dream of becoming one of the best players in the world. He fell in love with the beautiful game [...]
Zimbabwe Match-Fixing Probe: Four Players Caught With Well-Known Match-Fixers
Four members of the men’s Zimbabwe national football team were caught having lunch with well-known match-fixers on Tuesday. Earlier today we ran a story that said Knowledge Musona and Ovidy Karuru were currently under investigation for alleged match-fixing in the matches against Guinea and Mozambique. It now turns out that Musona, Karuru along with Thomas Sweswe [...]
Musona, Karuru In Match-Fixing Probe
The already struggling Zimbabwe football fraternity received another knock yesterday with the news that star striker Knowledge Musona and Ovidy Karuru are under investigation for match-fixing. This comes after the two were spotted at disgraced former ZIFA head Henrietta Rushwaya’s house. The fear within ZIFA is that elements from the old regime were causing dissention [...]

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