Old Mutual Victory Races launched
Submitted by editor on Wed, 05/08/2013 - 07:22.
The popular Old Mutual Victory Races series will take place for the 13th year consecutive year after Old Mutual announced a sponsorship of N$500 000 for this year’s event, at a press conference in Windhoek on Tuesday.
This year’s series will consist of four races, and will kick off in Oshakati on June 1.
The rest of the races take place in Swakopmund (June 22), Keetmanshoop (July 13) and Windhoek (July 27).
Vermeulen rings the changes
Submitted by editor on Wed, 05/08/2013 - 07:16.
Welwitschias coach Danie Vermeulen has made six changes to the side that lost 50-39 against the South African Universities last weekend, for their upcoming practise match against South Africa U20 in Stellenbosch on Saturday.
Vermeulen said that he was still experimenting and wanted to give everyone a chance to prove themselves.
“I’m using a rotation policy and I want to give everyone in the squad a chance to prove themselves. We have called up some players who were on the bench last Saturday, with the others moving to the bench,” he said.
Tickets for Bidvest Namibia Cup semis
Submitted by editor on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 23:46.
The 2013 Bidvest Namibia Cup semifinals will be played on Saturday 11 May at the Sam Nujoma Stadium in Windhoek and tickets are available at Computer ticket.
The tickets for the semifinals matches involving African Stars, United Stars, Rundu Chiefs, and Mighty Gunners are going for N$20 each at Computicket at Shoprite and Checkers countrywide until Friday.
On match-day, Saturday 11 May, a ticket will cost you N$30 at Computicket and NFA Soccer House, while at the gate it will be N$50 a ticket.
National Bowls reaches crucial stage
Submitted by editor on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 12:53.
The 2013 national bowls championships commenced last Saturday and are currently underway at four different venues in Windhoek.
Action will continue until this coming Saturday, 11 May, when the finals will be played at Eros Bowling Club near the Safari Court Hotel.
The other venues are the Windhoek Bowling Club, the TransNamib Bowling Club and the Bowls facilities at the Windhoek Country Club.
A total of 109 games were played over the opening weekend to determine the finalists in the Pairs competition.
Oshikoto’s Utoni aims high
Submitted by editor on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 08:31.
The first ever edition of the Skorpion Zinc U/17 Cup played at in Keetmanshoop over the past weekend saw one hundred goals scored by the youngsters with Oshikoto Region’s Josef Utoni top scoring with 11 goals in six matches.
The youngster from Tsumeb told nfa.org.na that he used the tournament as a stepping stone to greater things in life so that he could one day enjoy his dream of playing top flight football for his boyhood club Black Africa.
