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Bafana brings untested players, what about the Zebras?

Zebras’ road to Angola in 2010 will be put to a stern test when they face South Africa next week. It is a game in which Coach Colywn Rowe should use several untested players. As has been the case in the past, Rowe is expected to use regular players for the tie that South Africa is not taking seriously at all. South Africa would be using the game to try players who have never worn the national jersey...

Three professional boxing musketeers

‘A thousand-mile journey starts with a single step’, so says the old Chinese proverb. That seems to be applying to two of Botswana’s professional boxers, Kgotla Baeti and Lesly Sekotswe. It has been a long and tough road but it now looks like the light is coming out bit by bit for the duo. The two boxers are continuing to make waves in South Africa. Sekotswe, who turned professional two years...

Mochudi Center Chiefs’ championship year filled with controversy

After three decades of trying with little success, Mochudi Centre Chiefs finally clinched the 2007/8 Mascom Premier League championship. What is unique about Centre Chiefs’s victory is the fact that they won it without losing a single game and with four games to go. Also for the first time in many years, Centre Chiefs managed to bring out many supporters who always filled their stands to the brim....

Now who is going to be the best of the best?

Mochudi Centre Chiefs have already pocketed this season’s Mascom Premier League and finished it with style. Now all eyes are on the second position, which is being hotly contested for. At this point, there are no clear favourites for the position, but teams that are in strong contest for the position are Uniao Flamengo Santos, Gaborone United and Boteti Young Fighters. As things stand, all eyes...

Barclays bankrolls Under 23

Botswana football has once again received a major boast from one of the commercial banks of Botswana, Barclays. Barclays has forked out a massive P1 500 000 for the national Under 23 team for one year. The sponsorship comes at a time when the team shocked the world last year by defeating some of the stronger soccer nations. This sponsorship also means that two big national teams now have full time...

Abuse of drug and alcohol said to be prevalent among local players

The improvement in performance of the Botswana national teams in the past year has shown that the country has potential to compete with the rest of the world. It was definitely unbelievable to see a country of Botswana’s caliber beating heavy weights like China, South Korea and Japan, Morocco, Cameroon and Tunisia. This even resulted in several countries taking note of Botswana players. Some of the...

Historic local swimmers off to the Olympic Games

Swimming in Botswana is generally not taken seriously and most people perceive it as a foreign sport. Also, since the sport is water related, most people are not taking a keen interest because they associate it with coastal countries. Despite this, two young Batswana swimmers are defying all the odds and are on the verge of surprising the whole world with their swimming skills. The duo of John...

Zebras’ striking force too mediocre

The goalless draw by Botswana’s national soccer team, the Zebras, against a Brazil select side on Tuesday left coach, Colywn Rowe, a frustrated man. Just like in the previous game against Zimbabwe, which the Zebras also lost by a solitary goal, the team created many chances but could not convert them. What is even surprising is that the very same strikers who huff and puff in Zebras’ colours score...

Ghana thrashes Botswana

Botswana’s women Under 20 national team received a rude awakening defeat at the hands of one of Africa’s powerful houses, Ghana, during the World Championships tournament. Ghana humiliated Botswana by four goals to one in a game in which Botswana played well. Although Botswana came into the game knowing that Ghana naturally had an upper hand, they fought hard but inexperience let them down. Several...

Botswana tennis players tumble as South Africans dominate

Botswana tennis players suffered another defeat at the hands of their hyper-charged African counterparts in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Confederation of African Championships that ended today (Sunday). In their quest to keep medals in their own backyard, all the 24 players fared badly as they were eliminated in the first and second rounds of the prestigious tournament. The International...

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