Sports

As part of their strategic plan to develop the sport at grassroots level, Cricket Namibia in conjunction with corporate partners has launched a junior tennis school tournament that is slatted for next month.

South African football great Benni McCarthy has recalled how he scored his four goals for Bafana Bafana against the Brave Warriors of Namibia at the 1998 Africa Cup of Nations, saying it was the chants of “Banana Banana” by Namibian fans in Windhoek a few months earlier that had driven him.

Over 100 players participated in the Sanlam junior tennis tournament that took place in Windhoek over the weekend.

With strict health and hygiene measures in place, the Namibia Tennis Association (NTA), in conjunction with Sanlam Namibia, will this weekend host the much-anticipated T05 Sanlam Junior Tennis Tournament.

If you go to prison right now and approach a group of 100 inmates and ask how many of them actively participated in any sort of sporting or leisure event before coming to jail, I can assure you that the statistics from their response will shock you.

Namibian sport has in the past produced a significant number of high-profile athletes, manufactured in all sorts of different packages, notably in the football discipline.

First National Bank (FNB) Namibia’s three-year N$15 million sponsorship deal with suspended Namibia Premier League (NPL) officially came to an end on Tuesday, 30 June 2020, and reliable sources have informed this publication that the bank is now considering diverting their sponsorship to the country’s First Division.

Favourite international shooter/s? Correy Cogdell (USA) and Jessica Rossi (Italy).

Namibia climbed seven places in the latest netball rankings released recently by the International Netball 
Federation (INF), which saw the country move from 30 to a much-improved number 23 on the latest world ratings.

Beneficiaries of the MTC mega multi-million sponsorship announced this week in the capital yesterday came out in droves to shower the local telecommunication giant for recognizing and investing in them.