This afternoon, at the Presidency of the Republic, the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, will receive Ferroviário de Maputo, who won the African Women's Basketball League last Sunday. Also this afternoon, the Head of State will receive the senior women's volleyball team from the Pedagogical University of Maputo, who on Saturday revalidated their title...
Ferroviário de Maputo are African senior women's basketball champions for the third time. The "locomotives" beat Al Ahly from Egypt 81-72 in the final. Ingvild Mucauro was voted the tournament's most valuable player. From Dakar to Mozambique, the cup genuinely belongs to those who believed in the project. A good start against the giant Al...
The Mozambican senior men's basketball team will not be playing in the second qualifying round for the Angola-2025 Afrobasket, which is scheduled to take place in Dakar, Senegal, between November 22 and 24. According to a report in the newspaper Desafio, the information was confirmed on Tuesday (05) by the president of the Mozambican Basketball Federation (FMB),...
Mozambican international Filipa Calisto has signed for George Washington University. The basketballer joins the team after having represented New Mexico Junior College (playing in the NJCAA) last season. According to a publication in the newspaper Desafio, in March of this year, as an athlete at NMJC, Filipa was nominated for the...
The qualifying round for the National Basketball League, known as Liga Sasol, for senior women, kicks off this Thursday (26.09) in the southern and northern regions of the country. A total of eight teams are expected to take part in the competition, four in each region, which will determine the representative for the regular phase of the competition. The...
After all, it was the International Amateur Basketball Federation (FIBA) that paid for the tickets of the Mozambican delegation to Mexico, in a last-ditch effort by the world governing body of the sport to avoid serious reputational, sporting and economic problems that would arise if Mozambique failed to show up. A publication in the newspaper Desafio...
There is already money for the senior women's basketball team to travel to Mexico, where they will play in the pre-qualifying tournament for the World Cup from the 19th to the 25th of this month. The information was provided by the president of the Mozambican Basketball Federation (FMB), Paulo Mazivila, after saying yesterday that...
The national women's team will no longer take part in the 2026 World Championship Qualifying Tournament, to be held in Mexico from the 19th to the 25th of this month. The confirmation comes from the Mozambican Basketball Federation (FMB). According to the Mozambican basketball governing body, 200 thousand dollars, equivalent to 12.6 million meticais,...
Ferroviário da Beira and Costa do Sol entered the 14th edition of the Mozambican Senior Men's Basketball League, also known as the Mozal League, on the front foot, beating the "locomotives" from Maputo and Nampula respectively. The headline game of the first round involved the teams of Ferroviário de Maputo and...
The senior men's basketball team was ordered to leave a hotel in Zimbabwe last Sunday for non-payment of accommodation and food expenses. In that country, the players are competing in the Zone VI qualifying round for Afrocan 2023. The national team had 13,000 dollars (90 dollars a day for each...