Weekly Sports Round up
Yondani
at risk of 2-yr ban
Young Africans defender Kelvin Yondani risks missing
out on next season’s Mainland Premier League as efforts by his club to clear
his transfer from their traditional foes Simba hit a snag this week on Tuesday
this week"Honestly speaking, at this stage, the dreams
of featuring for Yanga next season are very slim,” a reliable source said after
a meeting between the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) legal, ethics and
player’s status committee and officials from the two clubs.
U-17 step up preps for continental games
After a
three-week training camp in the city, the national U-17 soccer team, Serengeti
Boys, left for Mbeya on Tuesday this week for further training ahead of their
Africa Youth Championship against their Egyptian counterparts.Serengeti Boys will face the Egyptians in the first
round, first leg of the continental tournament in Cairo, Egypt next month.The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) acting
secretary general, Sunday Kayuni, said this week in Dar es Salaam that the team
will camp in Mbeya under the auspices of Mbeya Urban Football Association
(Mufa).
EAC keen to promote School Games
The East African Community (EAC) plans to promote
Secondary School Games in order to identify, nurture and develop sports talent
in the region as well as enhance regional integration.
This was said by the Burundi minister for Primary
and Secondary Teaching, Crafts, Professional Teaching and Literacy, Severin
Buzingo, when he was closing the EA Secondary School Games and Sports in
Bujumbura over the weekend. Over 2,000
students and 200 officials from Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan
took part in the competition. It could not be explained why Tanzania failed to
participate in the regional tourney.
Hefty package for Premier League clubs
For the next three years, Mainland Premier League
clubs will be getting at least Sh 67 million a season, it was revealed.The package, which will likely ease the financial
constraints the clubs have been facing for years during the topflight league,
is the outcome of a ‘new’ sponsorship deal the Tanzania Football Federation
(TFF) has entered into with Vodacom Tanzania.Impeccable sources told reporters that Vodacom
Tanzania has agreed to sign a three-year contract worth Sh1.6 billion per
season with the national soccer governing body.
Dar cricket team loses ICC opener
The national cricket team launched their ICC World
Cricket League Division4 campaign on a sore note as Denmark beat them by 88
runs in the opening match in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Monday this week.
Reports from Kuala Lumpur had it yesterday that,
after opting to bat first, Denmark’s Carsten Pedersen (48) top-scored for his
team in its total of 224 at the Kinrara Academy Oval Stadium.
His teammate Aftab Ahmed (43) used the long handle
to good effect in the end overs as he smashed two boundaries and three sixes in
his 31-ball knock.
TPBO organises boxing festival
The Tanzania Professional Boxing Organization is
organising a festival that would feature several prominent East African boxers
early next month.The festival
is sanctioned by TPBO that has already granted an official permit to the
organisers to go ahead with the preparations.Mbwana Matumla will lock horns with Kenyan boxer
Abdul Noor in an eight- round super bantam weight bout.His brother
Rashid, who dominated boxing during his career, will battle another Kenyan
Patrick Amote in super middle weight bout.
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