Author: Carlos Kambaekwa (Carlos Kambaekwa )

He came, conquered, and lifted a pair of high-profile silverware in the country’s top-flight football league.

Scores of mourners braved the chilly weather that has been hitting the city over the last couple of weeks, to gather at the Pionierspark cemetery, south of Namibia’s commercial capital Windhoek, on Saturday morning.

It never rains but pours for the youthful Khomasdal outfit Civics Football Club, aka “The Mighty Civilians”. 

A devastating bombshell has hit the entire town of Rehoboth following the sad departure of one of the most recognisable figures in the southern town’s Baster community.

Without beating about the bush, truth be tol d, Namibian football is honoured to have had the greatest football entity in history in the shape of the mighty Black Africa Football Club.

During his playing days, former Golden Rivers and Tigers Football Clubs hard-as-nails midfielder Allu Hailonga, used to collect cards from match officials as if the receiving of cautions was going out of fashion but the practice eventually rubbed on him as he proudly exchanged roles of dishing out cautions and sanctions to law offenders.

Namibian football is a great deal of gratitude indebted to one of the most astute young football administrators in domestic football, one Ruben 'Bolla' Nangombe, the boy with the golden touch.

 A dark cloud has befallen the culturally proud close knit residents of Rehoboth following the untimely death of rugby coach Lesley Bougard, aged 70. A qualified accountant, Bougard has served Namibian rugby with distinction during his tenure as an astute mentor for the national seven’s team. 

Literacy tells us that an unorthodox boxing style is a method of boxing that is alien to the sport itself.

The job description of a football coach is to plan and lead training sessions with the ultimate aim of helping players improve playing the beautiful game, motivating staff, and developing skills and strategies of the modern game.