Brave Warriors coach Tom Saintfiet has announced a squad of 33 local-based players in preparation for Namibia’s World Cup qualifier against Kenya in Nairobi on September 6.

The players will go into camp on Sunday and start their training camp at the Khomasdal field on Monday. After a week Saintfiet will announce his final squad of 25 players for the Kenya match, which will include Namibia’s foreign-based professionals.

There are several newcomers in the Namibian squad...

Agnes Samaria crashed out of the women’s 1 500m at the Olympic Games when she came seventh in her heat today.

Samaria completed the race in a slow time of 4:15,80 which was more than 10 seconds off her personal best time for the event.

The pace was slow and tactical from the start and with a lap remaining Samaria was still in with a chance in the leading pack of athletes. But Samaria’s challenge faltered over the final home straight as she could not respond to the other...

Namibia’s lightweight champion Paulus “The Hitman” Moses is continuing to prepare for his WBA Lightweight world title fight against Japan’s Yusuke Kobori.

Moses has kept up a tough training regime, which has included regular sparring sessions against the likes of Jason Naule and Ali Nuumbembe.

Moses’ promoter Nestor Tobias said that the title fight would now most probably only take place in October and that Tokyo would be the most likely venue.

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Namibia will take on South Africa in the first leg qualifier for the 2009 Inline Hockey World Championships in Swakopmund on Sunday, August 24.

The return leg will take place in Johannesburg the following weekend, on August 30.

The first game will be staged as part of the annual Coastal Pirates Tournament to be held from August 22-25 at the SFC Hall in Swakopmund.

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Namibia’s Japhet Uutoni suffered a controversial defeat to Lukas Maszczyk of Poland on Saturday.

The score was tied at 5-5 at the end of four rounds, but Maszczyk was adjudged to be the winner after a recount.

Although it was not clear how they reached the final decision, the final decision was most probably influenced after cautions against boxers were taken into account.

The secretary general of the Namibia Boxing Federation, Joe Kaperu told Namibia...