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...
The 8th edition of the annual Katutura Sports Union (KASU) Winter Cup football competition, which was scheduled for this weekend, has now been postponed to 29 August at Khomasdal Stadium. Speaking to Nampa yesterday, KASU chairperson Kuveri Tjonga said the postponement was caused by unavailability of a stadium this weekend in the capital. “It remains...
Born Rudolf Campbell, in the harbour town of Walvis Bay on the 21st of August 1969, young Dolfie was just like many other boys: football crazy in the affluent township for non- whites during then South West Africa (SWA)’s oppression under the South African apartheid regime. Whereas a sizable chunk of his peers engaged in...
Following announcements that the 2020 edition of the Namibia Annual Sports Awards (NASA) has been postponed to next year, various athletes and sport administrators have come forth to weigh the decision of the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC). The awards were postponed as a result of the widespread Covid-19 pandemic, which has robbed athletes of opportunities...
Yours truly has been following with an eagle eye the unfolding events in the annals of domestic football, threatening to make us a laughing stock of world football. For starters, it’s disgusting that those who have been entrusted to administer the daily affairs of the beautiful game have now turned the game into their own...
Fulham made an instant return to the Premier League on Tuesday, beating Brentford 2-1 at Wembley in what is regarded as the most lucrative game in world football. Defender Joe Bryan was the unlikely hero for Scott Parker’s side in the Championship playoff final, scoring two goals in extra time after the London clubs were...
Maqonda Ndlovu While Namibia’s football leaders continue to engage in politicking and fighting, footballers continue to suffer at the periphery without food on their table. As the adage goes, ‘when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers’. This idiom is true to the situation the ordinary Namibian footballer finds themselves in due to...
The 17th edition of the Namibia Annual Sports Awards (NASA), which were initially scheduled for end of October 2020, have been postponed to October next year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) officially announced yesterday. NSC chief administrator Freddy Mwiya, at a well-attended press briefing in Windhoek yesterday, said...