Nande Yer was a Papua New Guinean

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footballer who represented

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

at the 1995 World Cup.

Early life

Nande Yer was born about 1970 in

Ialibu Ialibu is a small township in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, serving as the headquarters for the Ialibu-Pangia District. It also caters for the Imbongungu speaking people of the Imbonggu Electorate. Ialibu is the transit p ...

, a small village in the

Southern Highlands Province Southern Highlands is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its provincial capital is the town of Mendi. According to Papua New Guinea's national 2011 census, the total population of Southern Highlands (after the separation of Hela Province) is 515,511 ...

of what was then the

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, under the control of

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. His cousin, Raymond Kahl, is also a Papua New Guinean footballer.

Playing career

Yer played for the Mendi Muruks and represented the Northern Zone in 1991 against the touring

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. He played eleven tests for

between 1992 and 1996. In 2001 he served as a selector for the Mendi Muruks.Muruks name former Kumuls in line-up
''rleague.com'', 19 April 2001

Death

Yer died on 1 December 2012, at the

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after a heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Bida, and three children, Brownwin, Norberta, and Makena.

References

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