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As we head towards Cosafa Cup 2015 that starts on Sunday in South Africa’s North West province, it is worth taking a look back at the competition that was staged two years ago in Zambia. It was a superb event that highlighted the quality of teams in the South Africa region. Zambia emerged as winners of Cosafa Cup 2013, a ...

Beston Chambeshi is positive Nkana will maintain their 100 percent home run against Zanaco and end the leaders’ unbeaten record this season. Nkana host Zanaco at Nkana Stadium in Kitwe on Saturday seeking their third straight league home win over the current Faz Super League leaders stretching back to the 2013 season. Chambeshi said his charges are fired-up by their ...

Barcelona do not know how long Luis Suarez will be out for after the forward injured his left hamstring. The club confirmed Suarez will undergo physiotherapy on the injury and that the “˜evolution of his treatment’ will be determined when he has returned to training. Suarez was taken off early in the Champions League semi-final second leg against Bayern Munich ...

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard hopes to “keep it together” when he bids farewell to his beloved Anfield on Saturday. This weekend’s Premier League match at home to Crystal Palace will mark the 34-year-old midfielder’s final match in front of the Kop before he joins LA Galaxy once the season ends. “I don’t know how emotional it will be,” said former ...

Superior Milling Managing Director Peter Cottan has disclosed that K620,000 has been raised towards the successful staging of the boxing bout between Esther Phiri and South African boxer Sandra Almeida, representing 70% of the total budget. Speaking during a Meet Esther Breakfast meeting in Lusaka this morning, Cottan, who is also a fund-raising committee Chairman, says the team is determined ...

Inter Milan are determined to sign Yaya Toure from Manchester City, according to club president Erick Thohir. Toure has two years remaining on his current contract but has been heavily linked with a move away from the Etihad this summer. Inter would appear a logical destination given they are coached by former City boss Roberto Mancini, who brought Toure to the ...

Juventus shattered Real Madrid’s dream of a record-extending 11th European crown when Alvaro Morata scored against his former club to secure a 1-1 Champions League draw with the holders on Wednesday and send Juve into the final 3-2 on aggregate. Cristiano Ronaldo netted a 23rd-minute penalty to give Real the upper hand before Morata stunned the Bernabeu when he rifled ...

Zambia coach Honour Janza has ruled out any possibility of calling up his TP Mazembe trio for the 2015 Cosafa Castle Cup. Janza said defender Kabaso Chongo, striker Given Singuluma and Zambia captain Rainford Kalaba would not be available due to their forthcoming 2015 Caf Champions League commitments. The Zambia coach however added that fit-again midfielder Nathan Sinkala who played ...

Ex-Zambia and Ajax Cape Town defender Hillary Makasa has been handed temporal reins at demoted Roan United. Makasa takes over from veteran coach Fordson Kabole who suddenly quit on Monday with just nine games played in Faz Division One North following the Luanshya sides’ relegation from the Super League at the end of the 2014 season. “Hilary Makasa is now ...

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure refused to discuss his future at the club on Tuesday when asked about the subject at the launch of Fifa’s new anti-discrimination monitoring system. Toure’s agent, Dimitri Seluk, accused City of ignoring his client’s birthday last year and said last week that the Ivory Coast international, whose contract expires in 2017, was “90 percent certain ...