By The Express Reporter, Dar es Salaam
Simba are finding the goings tough in the Cecafa Kagame Cup tournament currently being played in dare s Salaam and Morogoro.
They lost their opening match 3-2 to tusker from Kenya and matters are not expected to be better when they take on Benadir from Somalia tomorrow.
The Somali team has Kenyan professionals, who inspired it to beat one of the tournament’s heavyweights Vital’O from Burundi 2-1 in their opening match.
Simba have a poor keeper Ali Mustapha, who replaced Juma kaseja, who is playing fro Yanga.
Their new signings from Nigeria Emeh Izichukwu and Obina Orjiis are a total flop and it seems it was money wasted.
Yanga meanwhile who forced a 2-2 with the defending champions APR from Rwanda, have all it takes to win the title they lastly won in 1999.
They have Kaseja in the goal who is proving one of the best keepers in the country and Shadrack Nsajigwa as the right back.
The midfield is packed with talented players such as Geoffrey Bonie, Athumani iddi and Mrisho Ngasa, while up from there are Kenyan imports Ben Mwalala and Ambani.
Other strong contenders for the title are APR, who are inspired by their playmaker Haruna Niyonzima and URA from Uganda, who demolished Rayon Sport from Rwanda 4-1 in the opening match.
The tournament is jointly sponsored by Rwandan president Paul Kagame and the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation.
Eight runners qualify for Olympics
By The Express Reporter, Dar es Salaam
Eight runners have so far attained the needed time to qualify for the next month’s Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
The Athletics Tanzania (AT) Secretary General Suleiman Nyambui said Samwel Kwang’w qualified after setting a good time in a 10,000m race held in Europe recently.
Other runners who have so far qualified are Dickson Marwa and Fabiano Joseph, who qualified in 10,000 metres. Joseph, who has also qualified for marathon, will now focus on the 10,000 metres only.
The list also has 5,000m runners Samwel Mwera and the national record holder Zakia Mrisho, who have qualified in category B. The team is currently training in Arusha under the former marathoner Juma Ikangaa ahead of the most prestigious games. Nyambui said deadline for qualification is set on July 24. “We will submit the names of our runners to the Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) on July 20,” he said.
Tanzania will send runners only to the Olympics after the only boxer, Patrick Emelian, was arrested and thrown in jail in Mauritius for drug trafficking.
Tanzania won its Olympic medals only in the 1980 Games in Moscow, when Philbert Bayi and Nyambui won silver medal in mid-distance races.
All set for miss Tanzania final
By The Express Reporter, Dar es Salaam
Miss Tanzania beauty pageant finalists are gearing up for the grand finale, which will take place in Dar es Salaam next month. The beauty queens are currently training and also doing chartable works in run-up to the final. They are currently in Mwanza visiting different tourist attractions and orphanages.
upon their return on July 20 they will resume preparations at the Paradise Hotel in Bagamoyo.
The finalists are Fay Anthony, Joan faith John, Amatha Crispin, Sylivia Mashuda, Nelly Kimwele, Aneth John, Angela Lubala, Rhona Swai and Florence Josephat.
Others are Gloria Masangua, Nadia Ahmed, Mariam Ajibu, Baby Joseph, Irene Salala, Linda Kaaya, Tahiya Badru, Cecilia George, Beatrice Dengenesia , Upendo Laizer and Johary Abubakar.
There are also Flora Mvungi, Blanca Emmanuel, Devotha Desiree, Nasrim Karim, Elizabeth Gumta, Doris Godfery, Tusikile Mwakibingaand and Lucy Fundikira.
The final will be staged on August 2 in Dar es Salaam and the winner will be awarded 8.8m/- and a car which its price is yet to be known.
The first and second runners-up will be awarded 6m/- and 3.8m/-, respectively.
The fourth winner will take home 2.7m/- while 2.2m/- will go to the fifth.
Others who will appear in the top 10 will receive 1.3m/- each. The rest will take home 660,000/- each.The reigning Miss Tanzania is Richa Adhia.
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What value is put on sporting contracts
By Jean Bonchance
It was the legendary movie mogul Sam Goldwyn who is supposed to have said: “A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.” It is precisely because of that - Goldwyn might have famously scrambled the English,
but you understand exactly where he was heading - that sportsmen sign contracts with the people who employ them.
Having a soccer star on your team’s books or tying a top Formula One drive to a particular marquee for a season, costs enormous amounts of hard currency.
In this respect, the business of sport is very much in line with what Goldwyn did so well, the making of movies - big investments and, if you get it right, enormous returns.
The 23-year-old Ronaldo - named incidentally after former US President Ronald Reagan, his father’s favourite actor - has still four years remaining on his contract with United.
But with the free-spending Real Madrid ready to lash out and initial $134 million for the 23-year-old Portuguese international’s signature and offer him a package of around $12 million a year for the next four years, the 100 000-plus pounds a week Ronaldo is banking at Manchester United doesn’t really look that lavish.
And certainly no cause for Sepp Blatter, the blathering German who heads Fifa and thus controls world football, to maintain that holding Ronaldo to his word to his employers rather than ripping up his contract and chasing the coinage of a different realm to make reference to “modern day slaves”.
Pele, the legendary Brazilian icon of the game, put that ill-considered remark in perspective.
“You are a slave if you work without a contract or you don’t get paid,” was the way Pele, saw things. “If you have a contract then in any job you have to finish the contract. I think that when he finishes his contract, then he should be free to go wherever he wants to go.”
Quite so, but the sort of money Ronaldo could probably earn in Spain if United were willing to let him go - which they are steadfastly not - would approach the kind of rewards available to the two biggest names in Formula One.
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen has a three-year contract worth $153 million, while his McLaren Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton is reported to be on $1 million a month. But that doesn’t include personal endorsements or the branding space on their racing overalls and helmets.
Those “areas of opportunity” for the branding wizards are especially keenly sought on the clothing of the drivers most likely to make the podium - and Raikkonen and Hamilton and front and centre in this category - and worth marginally more than the salaries they would draw from their teams.
It all adds up to something in the region of $20 million a year - the kind of cash inflow which tends to have the bank manager offering a comfortable chair and Cuban cigars.
It doesn’t quite measure up to the $250 million David Beckham will get from his five- year stint with the LA Galaxy in American Major League Soccer, but then the Tattooed One has a contract with his club ... and you can bet he’s sticking to it.
Ladbrokes.com latest betting: Cristiano Ronaldo is a firm favorite at 8/15 to remain and start the new season at Manchester United while on longer odds of 14/10 to successfully negotiate his transfer and rather start the new season with Real Madrid. Lewis Hamilton called his British Grand Prix win the best of his career and, after a stunning drive in the wet, it is easy to see why. The 23-year-old is now 5/4 alongside Kimi Raikkonen to lift the title, while the hapless Felipe Massa, who spun five times, is 4/1.