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Namibia takes on South Africa’s national women’s side, Banyana Banyana in a friendly soccer match at the Khomasdal Stadium on Saturday.
South Africa requested the match and will be sending their full strength side in preparation for the African Women’s Cup of Nations finals in Equatorial Guinea later this year.

According to Jacky Gertze of the NFA’s Women’s Desk, Namibia’s Brave Gladiators will largely consist of Under 20 players, to help prepare them for the SADC Zone 6 Youth Games which take place in Potchefstroom, South Africa in December.

Henrico Botes has been recalled to the Brave Warriors squad for their final World Cup qualifying match against Zimbabwe in Windhoek on October 11.
The former Brave Warriors captain last played for Namibia against Ethiopia in October 2006 when he spat at a player and was subsequently banned for six matches by the Confederation of African Football. Since then Botes also suffered a serious knee injury and didn’t feature much for his club Platinum Stars in South Africa’s Premier Soccer league last season.

The start of the Namibia Premier League is still undecided since the Namibia Football Association and the Namibia Football Consortium are still locked in negotiations regarding the new league.
The administrator of the NPL, Tovey Hoebeb told Namibia Sport that the negotiations were still ongoing and that the league will not start on October 18, as was previously reported in a local daily.
“The NFA submitted a proposal to the NFC, but it was not happy with certain clauses. The NFA then forwarded a counter proposal and we are now waiting for feedback from the NFC,” Hoebeb said.

Okahandja Beauties won the Women’s National Football Championships after beating Rehoboth Queens 4-0 in the final on Sunday.
Beauties, who were representing the Khomas Region, had by far the most possession and could have won by a much wider margin had they made use of their chances.

Beauties launched numerous attacks in the first half, notably through right winger Bianca Fredericks, but Queens’ defence stood firm. Especially Leandri Lucas caught the eye as she constantly cleared the ball away in Queens penalty area.

Tyson Uushona made a successful comeback to the boxing ring when he convincingly beat Richard Hwata of Zimbabwe on points over eight rounds on Saturday night.
A crowd of about 250 people turned up to watch Uushona’s first fight in more than a year and only his second fight since he won the Namibian welterweight title in October 2004.

United slumped to another defeat when they were beaten 25-15 by Kudus on their home field on Saturday.
It has been a disappointing season for the once mighty United who have now dropped down to seventh position on the log on 42 points.
Kudus, however, were full value for their victory which puts them in fifth position on the log on 47 points.

Namibia’s Dan Craven finished 51st in the Elite Men’s Time Trial event at the Cycling World Championships in Varese, Italy on Thursday.
Craven competed the 43,7km event in a time of 57 minutes 40 seconds, which gave him an average time of 45,45km per hour.
Craven finished 5 minutes 39 seconds behind the winner, Bert Grabsch of Germany, who completed the time trial at an amazing average speed of just over 50km/h.
Craven was the only cyclist from Africa to compete in the time trial event at the World Championships.

Boxing tops the bill this weekend with Namibia’s welterweight champion, Tyson Uushona making his long awaited comeback on Saturday night.
Uushona, who is still unbeaten after 14 pro fights, hasn’t fought competitively for more than a year but has been training hard and is raring to go.
But it wont be easy as his opponent, Richard Hwata of Zimbabwe is a seasoned pro with a record of 16 fights, 12 wins and four defeats and could prove to be a difficult customer.

Eleven Arrows’ new owner Johnny Doeseb has vowed to turn the coastal team into serious title contenders after making an assessment of their needs and bringing in several top players.

‘When I took over the team I made an assessment of our strengths and weaknesses. I saw that we lost a lot of unnecessary matches last season – if we capitalised on our opportunities we could well have won the league. So we have identified our weak areas and we have strengthened all these departments,” he told Namibia Sport.

The MTC Development Hockey Tournament takes place on Saturday at the Doc Jubber Hockey Fields in Olympia.

The Development Tournament formed an integral part of the annual hockey calendar during the Nineties when the Standard Bank Hockey Development Programme was still going strong. Hockey was introduced to all 13 regions of Namibia and teams from these regions battled it out in the Development Tournament on an annual basis.
Standard Bank however stopped its sponsorship at the beginning of the decade and the tournament has not been held since 2002.