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Institutional teams produce the cream of Botswana’s soccer players

For years now, there has been a standoff between institutional and community teams. Institutional teams are seen as having an unfair advantage over community teams because they use government resources while community teams have to fend for themselves. This then means that once there are no sponsors for community teams, institutional teams run amok and win everything on offer as once happened...

BDF commence annual Inter Formation

Last week, Botswana Defence Force kick started their annual inter club swimming competitions at the UB swimming pool. Participating formations included all the nine BDF formations, One Seven Armour who were last year’s overall winners, Combat and Signals Grouping, Headquarters, No 2 Brigade, First Brigade, 11 Artillery, Air Amour, Air Defence Artillery and Amour. The tournament...

Khumiso Ikgopoleng: the unsung boxing hero

Khumiso Ikgopoleleng, who is currently riding the crest of a wave of success, will partake for the first time in the AIBA world tournament. The tourney features the top 8 boxers in the world and will be taking place on the 10th to 14th of December in Moscow, Russia. At the Beijing 2008 Olympics, Ikgopoleng bowed out in the quarter finals at the hands of the eventual gold winner,...

Police XI to be pulled out of the league?

The continuing sidelining of institutional teams is not going down well with the office of the Police Commissioner, Sunday Standard has learnt. Information reaching Sunday Standard is that high ranking officials at Police are considering permanently pulling out their teams from all competitive leagues. The latest straw was a letter written to their First Division team, Wonder Sporting. Wonder...

Premier League sponsorship saga rages on

Uncertainty still surrounds the sponsorship of the Premier League. Although Munhumutapa African Broadcasting Corporation (MABC) is a self proclaimed sponsor, the company has so far failed to deliver the P60 million it has promised. The sponsorship would have been the biggest ever seen in the country. So far, people view MABC’s promises as just playing a cat and mouse game. The issue has gone...

Junior league championship finals spring more surprises

Mojadife Primary School’s cricketers recently became this year’s reigning junior league cricket champions. The finals were between Mojadife and Itumeleng with the outcomes showing Mojadife as the emergent winner, with its runner-up being Itumeleng Primary School. Philip Moshotle School obtained third position. The feat comes after a month of intense competition with eleven other primary schools...

Local players bloom very late

In many countries, a host of players easily break into the senior national teams at very young ages. Such players end up being eligible to play for almost all the youth teams. Currently, in Brazil, there is a red-hot star, named Alexandre Pato. Pato broke into the Brazilian national team early this year at the age of 18 at the time they were playing against their arch rivals, Argentina. Pato...

Premier League denies giving MABC TV ultimatum

Premier League secretary, Setete Puthego, has down played allegations that the Premier league committee had given Munhumutapa African Broadcasting Corporation (MABC) TV an ultimatum until Friday to deposit the money into their account. Phutego said that currently they are enjoying a cordial relationship with MABC and that it ís virtually impossible that in such atmosphere one partner could think of...

Strong Zebras on the cards

Many soccer loving people are filled with sadness following the elimination of the senior national team from the qualifications of both the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and the World Cup. Already many Batswana are saying many things and point fingers at certain individuals for the team’s failure. But accusations will not take the country anywhere but we should just pick up the pieces and continue...

Botswana’s Undefeated Cricket Boys dominate ICC tournament

As proof that cricket is among one of the fastest growing sports in Botswana today, the national cricket squad has landed an undefeatable and victorious win at an international event. This event certainly marks history in the growth of the sport in our country. Recently, the Sir Seretse Khama airport was adorned by smiles from Batswana cricket supporters when they welcomed back their cricket ‘heroes’. Sunday...

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