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Liverpool Okahandja
Liverpool Okahandja is a Namibian football club based in Okahandja. The club won the NFA Cup The Namibia FA Cup (''Namibia Football Association Cup''), officially Bidvest Namibia Cup, is an association football tournament for Namibian club Previous Champions *1990: Black Africa F.C. (Windhoek) *1991: Chief Santos (Tsumeb) *1992: Liverpoo ... in 1992 and became Namibia Premier League champions in 2001–2002. The Namibian 1998 African Cup of Nations squad included five Liverpool players: Petrus Haraseb, Bimbo Tjihero, Ruben Van Wyk, Simon Uutoni and Johannes Hindjou. References Football clubs in Namibia Okahandja {{Namibia-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although Kazungula, it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres (660 feet) of the Botswanan right bank of the Zambezi, Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU) and the Commonwealth of Nations. The driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia has been inhabited since pre-historic times by the San people, San, Damara people, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigration, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okahandja
Okahandja is a city of 24,100 inhabitants in Otjozondjupa Region, central Namibia, and the district capital of the Okahandja electoral constituency. It is known as the ''Garden Town of Namibia''. It is located 70 km north of Windhoek on the B1 road. It was founded around 1800, by two local groups, the Herero and the Nama. History Okahandja means ''the place where two rivers'' (Okakango and Okamita) ''flow into each other to form one wide one'' in Otjiherero. A German pastor, Heinrich Schmelen, became the first European to visit the town in 1827. In 1844, two missionaries were permanently assigned to the town, Heinrich Kleinschmidt and Hugo Hahn. A church dates from this period. A military post was established at the initiative of Theodor Leutwein in 1894, and it is this date that is officially recognized as the town's founding.Okahandja Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NFA Cup
The Namibia FA Cup (''Namibia Football Association Cup''), officially Bidvest Namibia Cup, is an association football tournament for Namibian club Previous Champions *1990: Black Africa F.C. (Windhoek) *1991: Chief Santos (Tsumeb) *1992: Liverpool (Okahandja) *1993: Black Africa F.C. (Windhoek) *1994: Blue Waters (Walvis Bay) *1995: Tigers (Windhoek) *1996: Tigers (Windhoek) *1997: ''not contested'' *1998: Chief Santos (Tsumeb) *1999: Chief Santos (Tsumeb) *2000: Chief Santos (Tsumeb) *2001: ''not contested'' *2002: Orlando Pirates (Windhoek) *2003: FC Civics (Windhoek) *2004: Black Africa F.C. (Windhoek) *2005: Ramblers (Windhoek) *2006: Orlando Pirates (Windhoek) *2007: African Stars (Windhoek) *2008: FC Civics (Windhoek) *2009: Orlando Pirates (Windhoek) *2010: African Stars (Windhoek) *2011: Eleven Arrows F.C. (Walvis Bay) *2012: ''not held'' *2013: African Stars (Windhoek) *2014: African Stars (Windhoek) *2015: Tigers (Windhoek) *2016: ''not held'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namibia Premier League
The Namibia Premier League (NPL), also known as Debmarine Namibia Premiership is the highest level of domestic association football in Namibia. The league was established in 1990 and was trimmed to 12 teams from the traditional 16 in 2005. It was folded in 2020 after ongoing problems with the Namibia Football Association, which finally ended the relationship. Meanwhile, the NFA founded the Namibia Football Premier League. The league restarted on the 6th November for the 2022/2023 season with African Starts against Unam at Hage Geingob Rugby Stadium 2017/18 Namibia Premier League clubs * African Stars (Windhoek) *Black Africa (Windhoek) *Blue Waters (Walvis Bay) *Chief Santos (Tsumeb) *Citizens (Windhoek) *Civics (Windhoek) *Eleven Arrows (Walvis Bay) * Life Fighters (Otjiwarongo) * Mighty Gunners (Otjiwarongo) *Orlando Pirates (Windhoek) * Rundu Chiefs (Rundu) *Tigers (Windhoek) *Tura Magic (Windhoek) *UNAM (Windhoek) *Young Africans (Gobabis) * Young Chiefs (Oshakati) Previous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RSSSF
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) is an international organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world. History This enterprise, according to its founders, was created in January 1994 by three regulars of the Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSS) Usenet newsgroup: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans. It was originally known as the "North European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation", but the geographical reference was dropped as its membership from other regions grew. The RSSSF has members and contributors from all around the world and has spawned seven spin-off projects to more closely follow the leagues of that project's home country. The spin-off projects are dedicated to Albania, Brazil, Denmark, Norway, Poland (90minut.pl), Romania, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 African Cup Of Nations Squads
Below is a list of squads used in the 1998 African Cup of Nations. Group A Burkina Faso Coach: Philippe Troussier Cameroon Coach: Jean-Manga Onguene Algeria Coach: Abderrahmane Mehdaoui Guinea Coach: Vladimir Muntyan Group B Ghana Coach: Rinus Israel Tunisia Coach: Henryk Kasperczak Togo Coach: Eberhard Vogel Congo DR Coach: Louis Watunda Group C South Africa Coach: Jomo Sono Angola Coach: Professor Neca Cote d'Ivoire Coach: Robert Nouzaret Namibia Coach: Ruston Mogane Group D Zambia Coach: Burkhard Ziese replaced by George Mungwa for last match. Morocco Coach: Henri Michel Egypt Coach: Mahmoud El-Gohary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrus Haraseb
Petrus Orlando Haraseb (born 1 June 1968) is a Namibian retired footballer. He played as a defender. Club career Haraseb was born in Klein-Naoas, near Dordabis but relocated with his parents to Erwee, in the Kunene Region. He played for NamPol, Pubs, Orlando Pirates Windhoek, Liverpool Okahandja, Chief Santos and Young Ones. International career Haraseb competed for the Namibia national football team from 1992-1998, including the 1998 African Cup of Nations. He made his debut for the ''Brave Warriors'' in an October 1992 World Cup qualification match against Zambia Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most cent ... and totalled 1 goal in 33 games for them. Personal life After retiring, Haraseb worked as a tour guide in the Kunene Region and currently owns a touring company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bimbo Tjihero
Lucas Tjihero (born 1 December 1969), better known as Bimbo Tjihero, is a Namibian footballer. He played as a defender. Club career Also nicknamed ''Rhoo the Saviour'', Tjihero was born in Okahandja and played for Benoni United before moving to Windhoek where he joined African Stars. He returned to his hometown when he formed the Liverpool Okahandja club with his brothers and relocated it to Okahandja. International career He competed for the Namibia national team from 1994 to 1999, including the 1998 African Cup of Nations. Tjihero made his debut for the ''Brave Warriors'' in a July 1994 friendly match against Botswana and totalled 1 goal in 37 games for them. His goal was a free kick against South Africa, when Nambia stunned their World Cup-bound neighbours during the 1998 COSAFA Cup This page provides summaries of the 1998 COSAFA Cup The COSAFA Cup or COSAFA Senior Challenge Cup is an annual tournament for teams from Southern Africa organized by Council of Southern Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruben Van Wyk
Ruben Van Wyk (born 16 June 1976) is a retired Namibian footballer. Club career Nicknamed ''Puchy'', van Wyk played for Liverpool Okahandja and Black Africa He had a spell in the South African Premier Division with Free State Stars. International career He competed for the Namibia national football team from 1992-1998, including the 1998 African Cup of Nations. He made his debut for the ''Brave Warriors'' in a September 1994 African Cup of Nations qualification match against Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina ... and totalled 8 goals - RSSSF in 34 games for them. Reference ...
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Simon Uutoni
Simon Uutoni (born 10 February 1970) is a Namibian retired footballer. Club career Born in Tsumeb, Uutoni grew up in the Nomtsoub neighborhood and played in the Benfica and Monaco youth teams before he started playing as a wing back for Namibia Premier League side Liverpool Okahandja. International career Nicknamed ''China'', Uutoni competed for the Namibia national football team from 1997–1998, including the 1998 African Cup of Nations finals. He made his debut for the ''Brave Warriors'' in an April 1997 World Cup qualification match against Tunisia, and totalled 3 goals in 23 games for them. Personal life After retiring as a player in 2004, he worked in the construction business in northern Namibia. He was an ambassador of the 2016 COSAFA Cup alongside former national teammate Johannes Hindjou. Uutoni is a father of seven children. Honours *NFA Cup The Namibia FA Cup (''Namibia Football Association Cup''), officially Bidvest Namibia Cup, is an association football tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Hindjou
Johannes Hindjou (born 8 November 1976) is a Namibian retired footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Born on a small farm outside Okahandja,Congo Hindjou: Jack-of-all-trades, master of all - New Era Live Hindjou played for local side , —winning the with both clubs—before retiring in 2007 after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
