Category: Sports

By Sports Journalist Ashton Kelly Bunda INDEPENDENT Schools Association of Zambia (ISAZ) cricket coach Ishmael Mbatata says building developmental teams from under 14-year-old to under 20-years-old will make Zambia a cricket fortress in Africa. Mbatata said reducing gaps in the developmental age groups is one of the solutions that will help players to graduate with maturity and confidence. Coach Mbatata, a Teacher and Sports Scientist at the Italian School observed a need for a pool of Zambian cricket players to choose from developmental sporting groups. Mbatata led the Independent Schools Association of Zambia (ISAZ) cricket team to emerge victorious in...

By Ashton Kelly Bunda Zambia Army Chief of Operations Brigadier General Benson Kamona rated 2015 as a sporting milestone year of achievements for the netball and football fraternity. General Kamona Midlands Netball Association  (MNA) annual awards ceremony  hosted at Arakan  Baracks in Lusaka that the netball national team that recently participated in the Diamond challenge  in South Africa, Africa Cup in Botswana  and the Netball World Cup in Australia  resulting in some players  clinching professional deals  in Sri Lanka. The Prestigious  annual  Midlands  netball  awards  saw  deserving  hard working  players  ,  individuals and Clubs   earning  awards in different categories with...

By BBC Sports Brazilian club Chapecoense have been awarded the Copa Sudamericana by South American football confederation Conmebol after most of their team died in a plane crash en route to the final. Seventy-one people, including 19 players and staff, were killed in last Monday’s crash on the way to Colombia for the first leg. Colombian opponents Atletico Nacional, who asked for Chapecoense to be awarded the trophy, have been given a Fair Play award to acknowledge their “spirit of peace, understanding and fair play”. Chapecoense will be given the $2m (£1.57m) in prize money while Atletico Nacional will receive...

By Ashton Kelly Bunda. SINO Zambia Table Tennis Club Chairman Darwin Wang says table tennis one of the unique games as it provides a spring board and an opportunity for increased participation in sport, reports Ashton Kelly Bunda. Wang said that the want the initiative to be benefit the local community and boost table tennis by attracting more quality players, Speaking during the official launch of the Sino Zambia Table Tennis Club at Olympic Youth Development Center (OYDC) on Friday 11th –November 2016, Wang emphasized that the objective of the club is to foster the cordial bilateral relationship between China...

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