Mine-2-Mine cycling race powers team spirit
Team spirit, grit and determination shone through as more than 90 cyclists raced between Solwezi and Kalumbila towns in the First Quantum Minerals (FQM) annual Mine-2-Mine challenge. The race was a...
View ArticleCopa Coca-Cola schools football tournament returns
School children from across the country stand the chance of football stardom with the launch of the 2016 COPA Coca-Cola grassroots school football tournament – now in its 23rd year. COPA Coca-Cola is...
View ArticleMessi handed 21 months jail sentence for tax fraud
FILE: Lionel Messi celebrating Argentina and Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for tax fraud. His father, Jorge Messi, was also given a jail term for...
View ArticleCopa Coca-Cola schools’ tournament kicks off
The 2016 COPA Coca-Cola schools football tournament kicked off at the Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC) in Lusaka this week. The competition, which drew over 450 schools from around the country,...
View ArticleSunzu signs permanent deal with French side Lille
Sunzu French club Lille have signed Zambia international defender Stoppila Sunzu on a permanent deal from Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua, reports the BBC. The 27-year-old, who initially...
View ArticlePortugal win Euro 2016
Substitute Eder’s long-range strike won Portugal its first ever major tournament, as they beat hosts France 1 – 0 to take home the Euro 2016 trophy. This was despite losing captain and talisman...
View ArticleLinda Secondary School wins Copa Coca-Cola
Linda Secondary School from Southern Province are the winners of the 2016 Copa Coca-Cola football tournament following a thrilling final at the Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC) in Lusaka on...
View ArticleZesco ‘electrocute’ ASEC Mimosas
ZESCO United have given their hopes of reaching the CAF Champions League semi-finals a boost with an emphatic 3-1 home win over ASEC Mimosas at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola on Saturday...
View ArticleNkana edge Nkwazi to go second
Nkana moved into second position on the MTN FAZ Super League standings and closed the gap on leaders Zanaco to nine points as they came from a goal down to defeat Nkwazi 2-1 in a Week 18 match at Nkana...
View ArticleEsther hasn’t quit boxing – Anthony Mwamba
Esther Phiri Exodus Boxing Stables Director Anthony Mwamba has strongly refuted reports that boxer Esther Phiri has quit boxing. Mwamba says as Phiri’s trainer and manager, he is deeply shocked by...
View ArticleOYDC football academy receives Manchester United kit
Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC) football head coach Lyson Zulu, has expressed gratitude to Keon Richardson, one of the students on the Wallace Group IDEALS project for donating the Manchester...
View ArticleMutapa delighted with qualification
Zambia Under-17 coach Oswald Mutapa says reaching the Cosafa Under-17 Cup semifinals is a massive boost ahead of his teams’ 2017 Caf Under-17 Cup qualifier engagements in August. The defending Cosafa...
View ArticleCongolese national wins 1st African Draughts-64 tourney
Zambian based Congolese draughts player, Richard Mwammba, was on Tuesday night crowned ‘International Draughts Grand Master’ after winning the first ever African Draughts-64 Championship held at the...
View ArticleZambia U-17 disqualified from COSAFA tournament for age cheating
Nicholas Mulilo Zambia have been disqualified from the 2016 COSAFA Under-17 football Championships being staged in Mauritius for fieldeding two over-age players for the tournament. An official...
View ArticleFAZ suspends U-17 technical bench following age cheating scandal
Nicholas Mulilo Following the embarrassing disqualification of the junior Chipolopolo from the 2016 COSAFA Under-17 football championship for age cheating, the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has...
View ArticleZambia’s Rio Olympics in setback
Zambia’s participation at the 2016 Rio Olympics has suffered a setback after the Judo and boxing teams failed to travel to the Olympics this morning due to lack of visas. The Zambian team was this...
View ArticleZambian athletes leave for 2016 Rio Olympics
Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC) Director Clement Chileshe, says he is optimistic that the Zambian athletes who have left the country to participate at the 2016 Rio De Genero Olympic Games in...
View ArticleKagem ‘dresses’ Zambia’s Olympic team
Zambia’s Olympic team is ready to don the national colours and fly Zambia’s flag high at this year’s Olympics in Rio with the arrival of the team uniforms. The uniforms, sponsored by the world’s single...
View ArticleEx-Chipolopolo striker Fichite jailed 25 years for defilement
The Lusaka High Court has sentenced former Zambia national soccer team forward Duddley Fichite to 25 years imprisonment for defiling a minor. Fichite, a staff sergeant of Arakan Barracks, was convicted...
View ArticleEsther Phiri: Zambia’s Million Dollar Baby – on Al Jazeera
Zambia’s Boxing Star, an upcoming Al Jazeera documentary also known as Between Rings, tells the story of Esther Phiri, dubbed the 400 Million Kwacha Baby by ESPN. The Zambian welterweight’s rise from...
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