Keetmanshoop’s Quiver Football Club (FC) were crowned winners of the Fourth Harders Cup annual football tournament, walking away with N$200 000 and a floating trophy.

Quiver FC beat Spiders FC from Noordoewer 4-2 in the much-contested final at Lüderitz on Sunday.

En route to the finals, Quiver FC beat Mountain Rangers of Rosh Pinah FC 2-0, while Spiders beat Youngsters from Lüderitz 5-3 on penalties after a 1-1 draw.

The tourney started on Friday at the Lüderitz soccer field and saw 20 teams from the ||Kharas Second Division League and one team from the First Division League competing.

In the 15th minute of the first half of the final match, Jacobus Meyer of Quiver found the net. At half-time, the score was 1-0 in favour of Quiver.

In the second half, Quiver FC were awarded a penalty in the 53rd minute after a handball by a Spiders player. 

§Meyer took the penalty and found the net. In the 64th minute, Stephanus Makayi scored Quiver’s third goal. The boys from Noordoewer came back hard, giving the Quiver defenders a hard time. In the 82nd minute, Moses Frederick found the net. Kaveid Kapunda scored in the 84th minute, making the score 3-2.

Meyer of Quiver sealed the deal in the 85th minute scoring the fourth goal.

Quiver FC coach Leevi Zanda, thanked the organisers of the event and his players for putting up a good fight throughout the competition.

“I am overwhelmed. Coming into this tournament, we were training morning and afternoon, and it worked, and I think that is what gave us the advantage here. I respect Spiders FC. They came fighting and they displayed good football, especially in the last minutes,” Zanda said.

Spiders FC coach Cassey Khakisi said “since it’s our very first time here, I think it’s a very big achievement. We just need to go back to the drawing board, and get ready for next year. Coming into this tourney we had a programme for one month to prepare the boys mentally and physically because we knew we would play a lot of games.” 

Spiders walked away with N$100 000, while Mountain Rangers and Youngsters walked away with N$50 000 and
N$30 000 respectively for taking the third and fourth places in the tournament.

Meyer received N$20 000 as the top scorer of the tournament with six goals. – Nampa