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Tales of The Legends – Remembering Bro ‘Stevie K’ RIP – Steve Kavari  1964 – 2022
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Tales of The Legends – Remembering Bro ‘Stevie K’ RIP – Steve Kavari 1964 – 2022

Just as retired players from Katutura giant killers Hungry Lions Football Club, famously known as the ‘Brave Lions of Judah’, were still struggling to come to terms with the heart-bleeding departure of the club’s blue-eyed boy Billy Tuahepa, joined in heaven by a few others who have all been mercilessly wiped from mother planet by the monster called Covid-19, death has struck again.

Up close with ‘Uncle Happiness’ Ricardo /Hawixa// Garoeb
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Up close with ‘Uncle Happiness’ Ricardo /Hawixa// Garoeb

For many, he is the well-spoken and energetic Kaisames radio station sports anchor but in real life, Ricardo Garoeb, famously known as ‘Uncle Happiness’, used to be a magical baller of note. New Era Sport caught up with the likeable popular socialite as he goes full throttle reliving his untold football journey, and how being harshly elbowed out of his job almost drove him to suicide.

In conversation with Vilho Kudumo Namufinda
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In conversation with Vilho Kudumo Namufinda

A product of the now-defunct popular biannual Inter-Mines’ Multi-Sport Games, retired long-distance athlete Vilho Kudumo Namufinda took a liking to long-distance running after being inspired by the late Abed Jacobs, Joshua ‘Bravo’ Kahitu, veterans Lukas Halweendo, Bob Tangeni, Edward Gariseb, Aaron Shipanga, Gabriel Awaseb, Hendrick Maasdorp and Simeon Martin, as well as the Kayele siblings Frank

Bernhard Mbamunomuvatere Kamatoto ‘The Hand of Stone’
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Bernhard Mbamunomuvatere Kamatoto ‘The Hand of Stone’

Love him or loathe him, former amateur boxer Bernhard Mbamunomuvatere Kamatoto in this edition speaks about his long and winding career. He pulls no punches as he lays bare the good and bad tales of his abbreviated boxing journey and life in general, as well as how a chronic disease hamstrung his childhood dream of joining the paid ranks. 

Edwardt ‘Nose’ Morgenroth
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Edwardt ‘Nose’ Morgenroth

A strict disciplinarian and uncompromising fitness fanatic, former Thistle Football Club’s hard-as-nails fullback Edward ‘Nose’ Morgenroth is one of the most revered yet less talked-about personalities in Namibian football.