Community Cup excites many Sports fans come out to support Khomas event There was plenty to choose from at this year’s Khomas Community Cup, which took place at two venues and featured four sport codes. This year’s Khomas Community Cup had a different flavour after the organisers opted to add boxing and wrestling to their normal football and netball activities.Now into its third year, the tournament is aimed at getting teams from the outskirts of Windhoek into the mainstream of sport activities.
The organisers –in this case, the Directorate of Sport- also felt that it is a good platform to introduce fans to somewhat new codes, such as wrestling.
As a result, the tournament had an exhibition wrestling tournament taking place at the UN Plaza in Soweto on Friday evening.
A group of young wrestlers from the After School Centre demonstrated what they have learned.
They were joined by Jason Afrikaner and Sem Shilimela, who have both represented Namibia at international wrestling events (see more on page 1 of Sports Wrap).
On Saturday morning action turned to the Katutura Youth Complex where the football and netball tournaments were being held.
In the evening it was back to the UN Plaza for an amateur boxing tournament, which pitted the Khomas region’s juniors and seniors against their Erongo counterparts.
The number of attendants was one of the many highlights while two female boxers also made their debut on the night.
Meriam Nghilongwa and Victoria Nambinga are both 19 years old and explained that boxing is quite for them.
“I only started boxing about a month ago and I’m happy to have made my debut,” said an excited Nghilongwa after the fight.
Nambinga added that she hopes to get more fights as she considers herself a potential Olympic Games participant.
A few of Namibia’s household boxing names also made it to support the youngsters.
Among them were two-time world champion, Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda, rising star Jeremiah ‘No Respect’ Nakathila as well as trainers Siegfried ‘SBK’ Kaperu, Ludwig Haimbodi and Tobias Nashilongo.
Namibian Sun was at all the venues and captured these moments.
HECTOR MAWONGA