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Tura Magic versatile defender Emma Naris will today lead a 25-member Brave Gladiators squad to Lusaka, Zambia, where they will face the Shepolopolo on Wednesday in the 2022 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) qualifiers.

New Era Sport caught up with the calculated midfield kingpin to talk about his amazing football career and his experience in his adopted land of the Brave.  

The Bank Windhoek Fistball League will return this Saturday with an opening tournament in Swakopmund. With 10 adult and six youth teams, fistball players are ready to compete after a long break. 

I have been following with keen interest all developments around Namibia and Botswana’s ambitions to co-host the 2027 edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), and I was quite surprised by how some government officials, especially those from the sports ministry and the Namibia Sport Commission, have been reacting to well-intended criticism.

The Namibia Football Association (NFA) last year invested over N$1 million in the training and development of local referees, and the results of that investment are starting to bear the desired fruits.

Clubs campaigning in the MTC Netball Premier League (NPL) have welcomed the Fast Five Cup, a pre-season tournament slated for next week at the Trustco United Sport Grounds in the capital.

Once the crossing of the T’s and dotting of the I’s has been finalised in the coming days, Namibia’s super featherweight boxer Jeremiah ‘Lowkey’ Nakathila will get another opportunity to return to the global stage to face Mexico’s Miguel ‘El Alacran’ Berchelt in what is expected to be a mega showdown.

Namibia’s leading kickboxer and one of the country’s foremost young sports stars, Delano Muller, recently hosted a motivational seminar on self-defence techniques at Otjiwarongo.

When Cameroonian football legend and former Barcelona, Inter Milan and Chelsea marksman Samuel Eto’o was elected president of that country’s football federation late last year, it was not just a new day for the federation; it was a monumental turning point for that country as a whole.

Namibian speedster Beatrice Masilingi has returned to training and is in high spirits, preparing for upcoming major international competitions.