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Manzini Sea Birds F.C.
Manzini Sea Birds FC is a Eswatini association football, football club based in Manzini, Eswatini, Manzini. History The club was founded 1987. The Seabirds played most in the Swazi First Division and was first time promoted to the Premier League of Eswatini 2012. In 2018, they won the First Division title to earn another top-flight promotion. Star forward Muzi Tsabedze tied for the league's top scorer and earned player of the year honors. Stadium The team plays his home matches at the 5000 capacity Mavuso Sports Centre. Notable players Below is a list of notable players who have earned international caps while playing with the club. * Victor Khoza * Banele Mdluli * Ndumiso Shongwe * Muzi Tsabedze Notable coaches * Van Royen Magagula (2013) * Sihle Mavimbela (2013) * Zenzele 'Ace' Dlamini (2014) Youth academy Since 2011 the club holds with the Ishibobo Soccer Academy (ISA), an talent scouting sports academy in Manzini, Eswatini, Manzini. ISA serves as the under-20 foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mavuso Sports Centre
Mavuso Sports Centre is a multi-use stadium in Manzini, Swaziland, Manzini, Eswatini. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 5,000 spectators. Also known as Trade Fair Ground, it is also used for traditional events such as king's birthday ceremonies.http://www.swazilive.com/Swaziland_News/Swaziland_News_Stories.asp?News_id=496 A new stadium has been proposed to replace it soon. Once the new stadium is completed, Trade Fair Ground will be demolished. References External linksArticle on Trade Fair Ground and proposed new stadium Football venues in Eswatini Manzini, Eswatini {{Swaziland-sports-venue-stub ca:Young Buffaloes Football Club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manzini, Eswatini
Manzini (formerly known as ''Bremersdorp'') is a large city in Eswatini (Swaziland), which is also the capital of Eswatini's Manzini Region. The city is the country's largest urban center ahead of Mbabane, with a population of 110,000 (2008). It is known as "The Hub" of Eswatini and lies on the MR3 road. Eswatini's primary industrial site at Matsapha lies near the town's western border. History A commercial center from the time a trading post was opened in 1885, Bremersdorp was designated a township in 1898. Arthur Bremer sold his hotel for use as British Colonial authorities who had administered Swaziland since 1894 as their national administrative headquarters, and stipulated that the settlement would bear his name (''dorp'' is the Afrikaans word for "village"). The name reverted to its original Swazi name, Manzini, in 1960 in honor of Chief Manzini Mbokane who was one of the trusted confidant and senior indvuna of King Mbandzeni. Chief Manzini Mbokane was the father to Ntengu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eswatini
Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west, south, and southeast. At no more than north to south and east to west, Eswatini is one of the smallest countries in Africa; despite this, its climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld. The population is composed primarily of ethnic Swazis. The prevalent language is Swazi (''siSwati'' in native form). The Swazis established their kingdom in the mid-18th century under the leadership of Ngwane III. The country and the Swazi take their names from Mswati II, the 19th-century king under whose rule the country was expanded and unified; its boundaries were drawn up in 1881 in the midst of the Scramble for Africa. After the Second Boer War, the kingdom, under the name of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premier League Of Eswatini
The Premier League of Eswatini, also known as the MTN Premier League due to sponsorship reasons, is the top division of the Eswatini Football Association. It was created in 1971 and plans to be a fully professional entity by 2022. 2021–22 MTN Premier League clubs * Denver Sundowns * Green Mamba * Malanti Chiefs * Manzini Sea Birds *Manzini Wanderers *Mbabane Highlanders *Mbabane Swallows *Milling Hotspurs * Moneni Pirates * Rangers *Royal Leopards * Tambankulu Callies * Tambuti * Tinyosi * Vovovo * Young Buffaloes Previous winners *1971 : Milling Hotspurs *1972 : Milling Hotspurs *1973 : ''not known'' *1974 : Mbabane Highlanders *1976 : Mbabane Highlanders *1977 : Juventus Kvaluseni (Mhlume) *1980 : Mbabane Highlanders *1981 : Mhlume Peacemakers (Mhlume) *1982 : Mbabane Highlanders *1983 : Manzini Wanderers *1984 : Mbabane Highlanders *1985 : Manzini Wanderers *1986 : Mbabane Highlanders *1987 : Manzini Wanderers *1988 : Mbabane Highlanders *1989 : Denver Sundowns (Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RSSSF
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) is an international organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world. History This enterprise, according to its founders, was created in January 1994 by three regulars of the Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSS) Usenet newsgroup: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans. It was originally known as the "North European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation", but the geographical reference was dropped as its membership from other regions grew. The RSSSF has members and contributors from all around the world and has spawned seven spin-off projects to more closely follow the leagues of that project's home country. The spin-off projects are dedicated to Albania, Brazil, Denmark, Norway, Poland (90minut.pl), Romania, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eswatini Observer
''Eswatini Observer'' (formerly ''Swazi Observer'') is a newspaper in the Kingdom of Eswatini. It was established in 1981 and it is owned by Tibiyo Taka Ngwane Tibiyo Taka Ngwane, meaning ''wealth of the nation'', is a Swazi sovereign wealth fund which was created through royal charter under the reign of King Sobhuza II in 1968. The company is currently held by King Mswati III in trust for the Swazi n ..., a Swazi sovereign wealth fund. The ''Eswatini Observer'' has sister newspapers, namely, the ''Saturday Observer'', and the ''Sunday Observer''. After the renaming of the country from ''Swaziland'' to ''Eswatini'' 2018 the newspaper also changed its name from ''Swazi Observer'' to ''Eswatini Observer References External links Official website Newspapers published in Eswatini Publications established in 1981 {{Africa-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muzi Tsabedze
Muzi Tsabedze (born 23 September 1998) is a Liswati footballer who plays as a forward for Manzini Sea Birds and the Eswatini national team. Club career Tsabedze played his first season of top-flight football in 2012–13 with the newly-promoted Manzini Sea Birds, notably scoring in a victory over 12-time champions Mbabane Highlanders. The following season he scored a gamewinner against Manzini Wanderers, another giant of Swazi football. After years of struggling at the bottom of the table, the team was finally relegated after the 2016–17 season. In the second-tier, Tsabedze led the Manzini Sea Birds to a league title in 2017–18 and promotion back into the MTN Premier League. He also earned league player of the year honors after finishing as the joint-top scorer with 14 goals. On 2 December 2018 Tsabedze scored in a 4–1 win over Manzini Wanderers and earned man of the match honors; The Times of Swaziland called him "eccentric" and "a handful with his pace and skill." In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eswatini Football Association
The Eswatini Football Association (EFA), formerly known as the National Football Association of Swaziland (NFAS), is the governing body of football in Eswatini. It was founded in 1968, and affiliated to FIFA in 1978 and to CAF in 1976. It organizes the national football league and the national team A national sports team (commonly known as a national team or a national side) is a team that represents a nation, rather than a particular club or region, in an international sport. The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exa .... The EFA adopted its current name on 1 July 2018, during the ordinary general assembly of the national football association at the Sibane Hotel. On 11 September, the EFA announced that it will hold an event to unveil its new branding, including a new logo. References External links Official siteEswatiniat the FIFA website. Eswatiniat CAF Online Eswatini Football in Eswatini Sports governing bodies in Eswatini Sports or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Times Of Swaziland
The ''Times of Swaziland'' is a newspaper in Eswatini Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ... (formerly called Swaziland). It is the oldest newspaper in Eswatini, having been established in 1897 by Allister Mitchel Miller (1864-1951). References External links * {{Media in Eswatini Publications established in 1897 English-language newspapers published in Africa Newspapers published in Eswatini 1897 establishments in Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Khoza
The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French short film * ''Victor'' (2008 film), a 2008 TV film about Canadian swimmer Victor Davis * ''Victor'' (2009 film), a French comedy * ''Victor'', a 2017 film about Victor Torres by Brandon Dickerson * ''Viktor'' (film), a 2014 Franco/Russian film Music * ''Victor'' (album), a 1996 album by Alex Lifeson * "Victor", a song from the 1979 album ''Eat to the Beat'' by Blondie Businesses * Victor Talking Machine Company, early 20th century American recording company, forerunner of RCA Records * Victor Company of Japan, usually known as JVC, a Japanese electronics corporation originally a subsidiary of the Victor Talking Machine Company ** Victor Entertainment, or JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment, a Japanese record label ** Victor Interactive So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
