BACK in the day, St Joseph’s Secondary School, the unofficial school of excellence (football-wise), famously known as Döbra, unearthed a significant number of great athletes that went on to establish themselves as big names in the domestic flagship football league, while a few others found refuge in the paid ranks in neighbouring South Africa.
One of Namibia’s most colourful socialites, Frans Tarah Shimbulu, is a man of many talents, having tried his hand at almost every available recreational activity there was to be involved in during a near faultless marathon life journey spanning over six solid decades.
A handful of the country’s leading golfers are crying foul after their apparent mysterious omission from a list of golfers invited to tee off in the upcoming four-day Royal & Ancient (R&A) Golf Club Tourney, slated for the 21February 2024 in neighbouring South Africa.
Namibian football has produced a significant number of football-playing siblings, but none have captured the imagination of the neutral fan more than the quartet of Young Ones Football Club Willemse brothers, namely Lance, Dean, Johnny and Danny.
A truly great multi-gifted athlete, Thomas ‘Tommy’ Jarman was certainly good enough to play for any top football team in the business and stood his own against the equally other solid shot-stoppers of his generation in the shape of Tigers agile net-guard Johannes Nandos ‘The Cat’ Mbako, Eddy Cloete, Johnny de Klerk, Stepha Seibeb and many others.
Indeed, Namibia has been beyond lucky to have watched you play the beautiful game with passion and virtuosity par excellence.
Yours truly has been following with keen interest the unfolding events and applied patterns leading up to the much anticipated Namibia Football Association (NFA) presidential race.
Growing up in the dusty street of Wanaheda location, a sub-section of Namibia’s largest residential area, Katutura, the calculated boy started his primary education at the Wanaheda Primary School the following year.
Established by enthusiastic and flamboyant would-be footballers but somehow below-average athletes in 1968, the now-defunct Flames Football Club might not have rated among the big guns of domestic football.
Born in the harbour town of Walvis Bay on the 30th of October 1981, Ndeshi grew up in the city of bright lights (Windhoek) in the Wanaheda residential area, a sub-section of Katutura.