WATCH: For the third time, Swakopmund will host the famous Africa Triathlon Cup on Saturday at the Mole beach. Catch this and more on the Sport Wrap show.
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Triathletes travel from all over the world to take part in this prestigious event in search of ranking points of the international Triathlon Union with the likes of Netherlands Austria Japan Finland and other African countries featuring now last year’s Elite men’s winner former South African veteran Richard Murray now representing the
Netherlands since March 2022 is back to defend his title against a field that does not include many others from the 2023 event a fourth place of the 2016 Olympics are among the many highlights of Mar’s career as the experienced 35-year-old chases another Olympics qualification it will be a new
Competition in the elite women’s category with none of the top three of last year taking part catch the Africa Triathlon live on NTV DStv 285 and go tv25 tomorrow from 8:00 a.m. now in local football the defending Champions African Stars FC would have been quietly hoping that tigers do them
A favor by beating onos FC in order to give them breathing space at the top of the Dead Marine Namibia Premier League table however angos showed their fighting spirit and placed themselves in a good position this after beating tigers by a solitary goal at the Independence Stadium on Wednesday vapi
Tomo scored the winning goal after 49 minutes thanks to an assist provided by Simon elago coach Agnes ELO of onos FC praised his players for winning the match they had in hand in local basketball UNAM Phoenix Women’s Basketball team has beaten Legends 101 to30 in the final of the common Basketball Association
Independence cup at yam Court while the UNAM Rebels beat Nast Blues 8274 in the men’s final the matches were well attended by crowds of both sets of teams with most of them chanting their teams towards Glory our journalist Jesse Jackson Cara was at the tournament and compiled this for Us coach um uh just introduce yourself and tell me how you you feeling right now I’m seeing um the yam phix winning here um in a very important final uh my name is meeli Linda um it was uh interesting final um the girls putting lot of work I’m happy that they are
Getting there they’re still work in progress but what doing well yes coach um I see that um you went all out in the first minutes and I think that was very important towards the end because you could have um time to relax was that the strategy yes we wanted to just get to
Win the game already in the first half so that even if we make mistakes we’re still safe uh being safe um all right uh you said that going forward um any more tournaments that you want to um win and um what is the future plans for for the
Team um we want to keep on pushing them we want them to develop as best they can so we’re trying to also now play international tournaments to see if they can improve on that thank you so much coach and good luck to the Future I’m coach Bruno row all UNAM reow
Team M thank you to come to support us and I really like the game I’m proud to see the opponent in nasty blue to play like that and uh I really congratulation them too because I believe that those young boys can do better than you’re
Supposed to do it and then thanks for my players that deserve what you done today and uh I hope that uh we have a great uh uh kba League because uh I trust that everyone will be working hard and I hope also to become champion on the kba uh
Again K League you’re all right coach thank you so much um so the immediate future is to become champions of the kba league do you think you have the players um the right ages um the right bodies the right mindset I believe that we have because
Of um we work on both sides right young and experienced players that is the most important uh like like example opponent have most of young players that is the reason that I believe that the league is going to improve more because we working on both sides experienced players and
Then uh and also young players the young players will come and they want to learn a lot with the experienced players we have a great future I believe in so and then we have been working hard for this thank you so much all right we’re going to take a
Short break before we dive into your [Applause] Take So we spoke to African Stars top goal scorer AO stefanas and he was talking about his current form and Club Ambitions this is adopted from our in the mix segment on to the topic of discussion like I said in my introduction we are joined by the goal
Scoring machine of African Stars AO you guys now see back at the top of the table you’ve had a wonderful season so far scoring I think 15 16 goals now 15 goals now 15 goals in the league yeah just tell us what do you make of African
Stars this season I mean you guys are defending Champions but yeah just run us through how has the season been so far yeah I think um it all comes down to the fact that we have a a very experienced Squad um people might say we’re a bit old but you know experience experience
Counts in football as well and then I think we as players we have Jed um through throughout the season last season this season so I think that’s working in our favor so far and like you said we are back on on top of the league
Um it’s just a matter of the last last few games to go in end for us to push through okay well looking at last weekend you guys played two big big games uh we did play one of the interview Clips in studio uh with of
With you and uru you guys have scored a lot of goals he scored 10 he has 15 assists uh yeah but just round up for us what how did the weekend go with the game against Chula Chula and mighty gas yeah I think one thing that I say I
Think um the double headers is killing us a bit um especially over the last few games of the season um we first went to Oak where we played um High anticipated game against chaula where the tempo was a bit up and then from there we had to
Travel to oaro where we had to play the soldiers again another running team so but unfortunately um the game against m g didn’t go away but we as players we know we know what we up for um I think we just need to get back to the drawing
Board and then from our next games we need to pull out our socks again mhm Jesse Jackson your thoughts on the dead marine and African Stars performance well um it it as expected um it was not going to be an easy season for them um knowing that they are the
Defending Champions um and every team that wants to play against St um makes it like a cup final uh wants to win and it it has been evident to to to that the season um however you know that um the club uh the Double headers as um AO
Alluded to I think it is a major issue in terms of um of the players and and and the strain it puts on them um but it has created a very good atmosphere um a good um ending to this season we expect as well given the margins okay well
Before we do move on to find out what Enzo has going for us in the kitchen looking at the table this season I mean the league is tighter yeah what what do you make of this season compared to last season what what did teams do different this season compared to last season yeah
Um I think um that the newcomers the bo the new boys on the Block like Nas nul um angos angos is basically a team that just changed the name I think they they they gave us a run for our man so far um and then they also know that um this is
The style of play of African stars and they also capitalizing on those few factors that we have um especially like closing off the danger mans in in the African star Squad and they are they are doing that well so far and that’s why the league is so competitive up until
This uh point up until this point I I don’t want to call it the coincidence but I just picked up something that Enzo them was talking about and L used to play Under canalo and guess who plays under R canalo now the coincidences are just crazy for
Me but yeah speaking of why they were talking about the food Sal just like to show you guys the group stages so you see where Namibia is taking in we are in a group with Egypt to finish second last season in the last um in the in the last
Footall competition there was and then we also have Libya who have won the comp comption before so yeah a will if looking at the group ages Morocco is the reigning Champions Angola have won it I think twice as well we are really with stiff competition but yeah looking at
The footall industry what what are your thoughts on those group stages yeah I think um since since it’s our first time at the competition as a nation I think the boys the boys are geared up because we as African Stars before they left for Tanzania or before they played Tanzania
We also had like a footall game that we played against them and I could see that they they it’s not the same as football over 11 V1 I think those are they are more fed than us as a as a 11 V side I think but like you said um it’s the
First time that they in the competition and then there’s like Egypt and Libya there those are just names for me um look at look at what happened of our national team the break Warriors at the afcon currently they played more um Tunisia that was ranked I think the
Third third on the FIFA on Africa but they they did a they did a good job so the boys might just go out there and do it and then fight every game that they get okay okay so you you basically saying footall it’s not as easy as it
Looks regardless of it being a smaller field since you tried out yourself H not at all like uh Louis said um there was a time when football didn’t start in niib yet um so I was also playing for a team called um from Comal some friends of
Mine that invited me to go play with them and I could see those 20 minutes games um they they they they need energy they need energy not like football or the normal 11 V 11 Jess there’s anything you’d like to add regarding the footall no I I think um I’ve played footall
Myself before when I was a bit um younger it is not um it is not easy um it’s it’s the same as when playing a seven as side Outfield um where every player is required to work double the shift as 11 players would have worked so
That’s one of the things that I can tell you about okay well before we do leave you know the only problem that we do have is we never have enough time to talk about football we never have enough time to get to anything but speaking of your personal goals um goal scoring wise
Do you have a Target set for yourself or you’re just taking it game by game yeah um I think last season I had a Target to just cuz since I um from a Winger I changed my main position to the cental forward so last season I had I had the
Objective to go for a top goal scorer um award um and then I achieved it this time around um since I’m playing again in the same position for me is just to just to try and um um um capitalize on whatever chance I get in every again
Okay well that’s very very well said from the man himself the guys in the kitchen should be done I think we should be done so we look forward to the meat Jesse like Enzo stated earlier we do have meat on the show today so how do
You feel about that it’s not funny funny things anymore it’s real real meat for you um in in my culture when food is around you don’t talk too much so I’m just waiting for the mealo I just want to eat yeah but yeah I would also before
We do get to the food we do have a break in the league yeah how important is is it for you guys to just take a moment back sit back catch a breather and then get back at it again yeah normally we as footballers we we we really don’t like
Breaks cuz normally if you’re on a winning streak it breaks the momentum um but for for but now I think since it’s Independence we we as as the nation we have to celebrate our independence and then there’s Easter as well whereby the I think the under 20s are playing the
Newspaper cup um I think um football development is also important so we as seniors we that has played in the cup before we have to we have to let the the younger ones also showcase their Talents you’re still with sport rap and there’s been some good news for Namibia at the African game games in Ghana in cricket and Athletics the men’s cricket team the rishu Eagles are assured of winning a medal either silver or gold after booking their place in the T20
Final to be played in Acra tomorrow afternoon Namibia won the first semifinal by 24 runs against Uganda yesterday morning after posting a modest total of 111 for7 before restricting the East Africans to 8749 Captain malan Krueger contributed 21 for namibia’s opening stand with Niko Davin who scored
25 before herard yante f rensburg with 19 JP cter with nine runs and JC Bal with 22 Andre clinga 4 for9 and Ben shikongo 2 for12 stood out in their bowling spells of four of four overs each rather now the namibians had to wait on the outcome of semi-final 2 in
Which Zimbabwe beat Kenya now in Thursday’s Athletics program at the African games four sprinters survived their Heats in the 200 M and proceeded to the semi-final they are Gilbert hauka who won bronze in the 100 Alvis CB daana HMO and Johanna ludaris however they were all eliminated in the semi-final
With Huka coming the closest by just a few hundreds of a second from advancing to the 200 M men’s final now in this video by namibian Sports journalist Michael Wanga sorry Wanga Eagles coach Oscar Nas gives his thoughts okay Coach you have just reached the final of the a the Africa
Games you made history by losing two match uh the two opening matches and you made history Again by winning the last two matches you are now in the final you are waiting between Kenya and uh and Zimbabwe so just tell us through the match um look obviously we know Uganda
Um have got a strong side um and they came into this unbeaten so we knew we’ going to have to lift our game from from yesterday and I think we did that uh you know ultimately you underestimate us at your peril uh we we’re good when our
Backs are against the wall and um as a group of players and management and everyone we’ve really come together in the last few days and I think that that showed out here that was a complete team performance with everybody contributing whether with battle with
B and uh you know we we took a lot of confidence from the win yesterday and we’ve got to keep building on that ultimately you know knockout games are at the start of the game it’s 50/50 and you’ve got to go down you’ve got to play smart you’ve got to be composed and
You know you’ve got to have an idea of what you’re doing so but tomorrow is a rest day so we’ll rest up it’s it’s hot out here um the boys need a rest I think they’ve earned that and then we’ve we’ve got to turn up for one more game but um
You know we’ve shown that even with a young group of players we can compete and if we compete we’re always going to give ourselves a chance what did you tell the players where you lost those two opening matches heading into yesterday’s match against Tanzania what was going through your mind as a coach
And the play um I think sometimes what goes through your mind as a coach and what you tell them is probably two different things but ultimately look we we knew after two losses we were we were playing for the respect of the people back home um you know your supporters your family
Your country uh and you we hadn’t given our our sort of put our best foot forward so finals concluded last two games and people what we are and do you think namia can win the gold medal if somebody can ask we in the finals we have a 5050 chance you know so
Uh like I said earlier we’ve just got to make sure we’re we’re organized with the way we approach the game and what we’re thinking and of course if you’re if you’re in the final finals were made to be one so that’s what we’re going to do we’re
Going to go out and try and win it okay thank you coach now in their recent meeting in Namibia the rishu Eagles managed to get the best of Zimbabwe we certainly wish them the best in tomorrow’s Final in Akra Ghana from me Ashwin B enjoy your
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Good form as she’s the number eight seed and she also played in the final of the Indian Wells tournament a week ago and she beat Yu yangang of China by 62 and 62 that is still in the round of 64 games and it is also analina kalalina
She had a good win she beat kalalina wasaki and she beat in three sets a tough game 57 75 and 64 to advance also to the round of 34 and also so some of the higher seats that’s also through it is pus hadat Maya she’s the number 11
Seat she’s also through to the next round and also Nomi usaka on the main side of the draw good result also for kills mon of France he also had a good Indian Welles tournament and he beat dusan Lasik with the Czech Republic by 76 and 64 also in the round
Of 64 and then also Dan Evans of United Kingdom me beat Lorenzo Sono of Italy and that was also in three sets one 6 63 and 64 to advance to the round of 34 and on to soccer news next and it is two big clubs in European football
That’s looking for a new manager it is both Bayern Munich and also Liverpool that’s trying to get the services of zabi Alonso and zabi Alonso is a former Liverpool and former Bayern Munich player and he’s currently the coach of Bayern lusen and he’s on the brink to
Get Bayan lusen to win the German Bundesliga for the first time but what happened is uh what’s going to happen is that Liverpool’s going to lose Jurgen klopp he’s going to end his season or his few seasons as coach of Liverpool at the end of the season and also Thomas
Tel he is the current coach of Bayern Munich and he will also be uh leaving the club at the end of the season so both the clubs trying to get the services of zabi Alonso and to conclude today’s international sports news it is golf news on both the men’s PGA and the
Women’s LPGA uh first round games or first rounds that’s been concluded in the volar championship on the men’s PGA that’s been played at the copperhead course that is in Florida and the first round leader at the moment is Kevin Streelman and Kevin Streelman had a
Round of minus 7 and some of the big names that just behind him is Justin Thomas on minus three and also John Xander shley on a three underpar as well is Christian B not he’s the best place the southern African player he’s from South Africa he’s to undera on the
Latest PGA it is in the fur Hills C pu Championship that’s in California the leader after the first round is M Amy LeBlanc she’s from Canada she came in with a score of minus 7 and it is further down it is a South African player that’s the best Southern African
Plac that is Paula Rito she’s tied 14th at the moment at two under par that’s international sports news for today hope you have a great sport day and Sport weekend and we talk international sport again on Monday goodby
