Category: Sports

A look at 15 moments in sport during an extraordinary, coronavirus-disrupted 2020:  READ | FROM KOBE TO DIEGO, 12 SPORTING GREATS WHO DIED IN 2020 Bayern sweep to Champions League title When the pandemic forced UEFA to transform the final stages of the Champions League into a mini-tournament in Lisbon, Bayern looked the best team […]

Lionel Messi beat Pele’s record of goals for a single club when he scored his 644th for Barcelona in a 3-0 victory against Valladolid on Tuesday. ‘NEVER THOUGHT I’D BREAK RECORDS’ – MESSI The Argentina forward scored Barca’s third goal when he collected Pedri’s backheel and struck the ball past goalkeeper Jordi Masip in the […]

Argentina captain Pablo Matera said he was just “an immature boy” when he posted tweets deemed to be racist and which saw him briefly suspended from the Pumas team earlier this month. PABLO MATERA: I HAVE GROWN UP Matera, 27, told Canal Plus on Sunday that he had “grown up” since the tweets of 2011 […]

Orlando Pirates coach Josef Zinnbauer will on Tuesday, December 22 begin a CAF Confederation Cup campaign he hopes will end with him becoming the first German to lift the trophy.   NO GERMAN COACH HAS WON THE CAF TOURNAMENT Spanish and Swiss coaches have each won the African equivalent of the Europa League twice and […]

DStv Premiership club TS Galaxy axed coach Dan Malesela on Sunday after a struggling start to their 2020/21 campaign – and may already have found his long-term successor. Despite only recording one win in their opening eight matches, TS Galaxy aren’t the worst team in the league this season. Far from it in fact. TS […]

The dates of two Currie Cup matches – both involving the Bulls – have been moved to combat the threat of Covid-19 infection. WATCH | HIGHLIGHTS FROM CURRIE CUP ROUND 4 The Bulls’ home match against the Lions – scheduled for Boxing Day, Saturday, 26 December at 19:00 – has been postponed to Wednesday, January 6, […]

Kaizer Chiefs’ troubles in the 2020/21 DStv Premiership have received a lot of coverage and are well documented. KAIZER CHIEFS ARE IN 13TH PLACE After eight matches this season, the Soweto giants are down in a lowly 13th place in the standings. This after losing out on the 2019/20 title on the final day of […]

LaLiga side Real Betis have officially opened their new academy base in Harare, Zimbabwe. The Spanish top flight side’s plans to unearth football talent in Zimbabwe had to be placed on hold due COVID-19 however, this weekend saw the official opening of their state of the art academy in Harare. Watch: Inside Betis’ new academy […]

Ambitious KwaZulu-Natal side AmaZulu have two of Bafana Bafana’s greatest ever strikers – Benni McCarthy and Siyabonga Nomvethe – now managing the club. READ | GAVIN HUNT IDENTIFIES NO 1 AREA OF CONCERN FOR KAIZER CHIEFS McCarthy was appointed coach of the club last week and has moved quickly to enlist the services of Nomvethe […]

Brazil great Pele has paid tribute to Lionel Messi for equalling his goal-scoring record for a single club after the Argentine forward netted his 643rd goal for Barcelona in Saturday’s 2-2 home draw with Valencia. PELE TOOK 665 MATCHES, MESSI 748 Messi, 33, hit the milestone goal with a diving header just before half-time immediately […]