
The Beautiful Game and the Business Behind It
By Nqobile Magwizi, ZIFA President The phone call came out of nowhere. One moment, I was running my communications company, focused on the usual press deadlines and client briefs. The next, I was in a meeting with the cricket authorities, talking about a merger that didn’t seem to make sense on paper – until it […]

The State of Our Game: Club Football in Zimbabwe
By Nqobile Magwizi – ZIFA President A Belgian Revelation On 10 October 2022, I, along with a five-member delegation from Highlanders Football Club, landed in Paris – the first stop on what would become an eye-opening journey through Europe’s football capitals. From the training centres of Paris and London, to the iconic stadiums of Barcelona, […]

Taking the Game to Every Zimbabwean
The training pitch hums with energy. Young voices rise and fall, speaking in differentlanguages and dialects, each player determined to make themselves heard, to ensure theirinstructions are understood. At first, the cacophony is charmingly chaotic – a reflection ofZimbabwe itself: diverse, vibrant, and full of potential. But as the session unfolds, itbecomes strikingly clear: football […]

ZIMBABWE 1-1 NIGER
Date: Tuesday, 10 June 2025Venue: Stade Père Jégo, Casablanca Zimbabwe’s Warriors played out a 1–1 draw against Niger in an international friendlyheld at Stade Père Jégo in Casablanca on Tuesday evening, showing markedimprovement following their 2–0 defeat to Burkina Faso just four days earlier. The Warriors made a bright start and were rewarded in the […]

Football – The Heartbeat of Zimbabwe
By Nqobile Magwizi, ZIFA President Having finished his FormFour at Lower Gweru Adventist Secondary School, my older brother Eliphas landed a job as a temporary teacher at Gwehava Primary School in Gokwe. With his very first salary, he bought what was then the radio of the moment – The People’s Radio, a single-frequency FM set. […]