President of the Namibia Football Association (NFA), Ranga Haikali, yesterday strongly shot down growing assertions that he and his entire executive committee members are captured by the self-styled Progress Forces group. New Era Sport understands that the self-proclaimed Progressive Forces group consists of former footballers, former clubs executives and chairmen, who all apparently share a...
Being selected by the Namibia Cycling Federation (NFC) to represent the country at the 2021 Olympic Games is a dream come true, national Mountain Bike (MTB) champion Alex Miller has said. Miller won the national MTB title a month ago and his selection means the four spots allocated to Namibia at the Olympic Games to...
Former Italy and Juventus star Andrea Pirlo was appointed the Italian champions’ new coach, just hours after Maurizio Sarri’s sacking with the club promising a “new chapter in world football”. Sarri 61 leaves Juventus after just one season, a day after the Italian giants crashed out of the Champions League in the last 16 to...
Treble-chasing Bayern Munich are relishing their Champions League quarterfinal against Barcelona in Lisbon after Robert Lewandowski netted twice to seal a 4-1 home win over Chelsea on Saturday in the last 16, return-leg tie. “The anticipation is enormous. Barcelona has a good team with very good players, but if you look at the last few...
The Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) announced it has cancelled all activities for this year due to the widespread coronavirus pandemic. In a statement released on Friday, the NRU said after lengthy consultations with clubs and all relevant stakeholders, the union’s board resolved to cancel all rugby activities for the remainder of the 2020 season. It...
Athletics Namibia (AN) president Erwin Naimhwaka said the federation is still optimistic it will host its remaining championships scheduled for the year. AN called off most of its planned activities when the state of emergency was declared in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In an interview with Nampa, Naimhwaka said the AN board...
The Namibia Football Association (NFA), which expelled the Namibia Premier League (NPL) and its entire executive committee, this past Friday wrote to 16 NPL affiliated clubs inviting them to apply for membership with the association to be part of a new premier league that will resort under the NFA. The letter, which was signed by...
World champion Lewis Hamilton admitted he “wasn’t good enough” after Valtteri Bottas showed just why champions Mercedes re-signed him for 2021 earlier this week by grabbing pole position at the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix on Saturday Drawing on his reserves of courage, determination and pace, Bottas beat his championship-leading teammate and six-time world champion with...
The Namibia Premier League (NPL), which was expelled as a member of the Namibia Football Association (NFA) a few weeks ago, yesterday announced that it had established and registered a new professional league with the Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA), and that it had also applied for membership with the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC)....
In case, and I really mean just in case, the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) fails in its last-ditch effort to try and mend the strained relationship between the Namibia Premier League (NPL) and the country’s football governing body, the Namibia Football Association (NFA), then we, as a country and as football fanatics, should be open...