Grace Chanda’s name is certainly going to be written in copper letter in the hearts of millions of Zambian football followers after the mercurial striker led her native country to a historic first ever qualification to the Olympic Games. Training Cameroon 3-2 from the first leg, final qualification match this week, (Chanda had scored the two...
Ghana and South African national coaches might as well have broken into the rendition of the old school Staple Singers ditty: “Let’s do it again” in faraway Cairo this week when the FIFA 2022 World Cup draw was conducted. When the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Director of competitions Samson Adamu pulled out the balls from...
The decision by the Botswana Football Association (BFA) to appoint German Dr Caroline Baun last year as assistant to senior men national coach Adel Amrouche was a masterstroke. She is not only involved in the senior national men team but her influence in the women game has been nothing short of miraculous. Somehow, she seems to...
My son once asked me why I didn’t become a football coach seeing that in his view “I knew so much about the game”. I informed him the through the grace of God, I wanted to live longer, hence my decision never to get involved in the technical aspect of the game. He did not know...
Attorneys representing billionaire businessman and former Governor of the Katanga Province who is currently the President of Lubumbashi football giants TP Mazembe have dispatched a letter to a Madagascan newspaper demanding that they retract a story implying their client had bribed a Zimbabwean goalkeeper. Gregory Ernes, the attorneys representing Moise Katumbi Chapwe threaten to file criminal...
The shortage of currency or rather lack of funds has grounded Zimbabwe’s ambitious plans to charter a flight to Monrovia for their penultimate Group G match against the “Lone Stars” of Liberia on Sunday. As a result, the Warriors have travelled in dribs and drabs to the West African country, most flying directly from their different...
While the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) is planning to bid for the rights to host next year’s Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) Senior Challenge Cup, Zimbabwe has already submitted an official bid. Malawi Secretary General Alfred Gunda has expressed a desire host the annual event but according to COSAFA CEO Sue Destombes, only...
South Africa’s AFCON winning goalkeeper Andre Arendse who is part of the Technical bench urged the team not to lose focus but to fully concentrate on the job at hand as Bafana Bafana prepare for another tie with Seychelles at Stade Linite in the Indian Ocean Island tomorrow. Following a 6-0 rout of the hapless Islanders,...
The third round of the 2019 African nations Cup qualifiers get underway from Tuesday across the country but there is uncertainty and confusion around the Group F fixture between Ghana and Sierra Leone scheduled for the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi on Thursday. The Leone Stars were last week suspended by FIFA from all football activities...
N.B. This article was written back in 2012! Britain has become a scary place to attend and watch matches these days. I say this after watching the Manchester derby last week. When the referee blew the final whistle, which was attended by close on 58 000 spectators at the City of Manchester Stadium, United defender Rio Ferdinand...
