Young African serious about training field

Young African Football Club have been caught in a tussle with the Gobabis municipality over use of the Legare Stadium’s B field where they were planning to host their training sessions for the upcoming season.

The Namibian premiership club has requested to use the B field as their training ground, but their request was turned down.

Club owner and coach Marley Ngarizemo expressed dismay over the situation, stating that the municipality was denying the players and team an opportunity to have proper preparations.

“We have been denied an opportunity to train at the Legare Stadium’s B field and this is not something good for the town.

“Young African Football Club is the only team from our region that plays in the premier league and this is not a good image at all.

“This is a critical setback as we prepare for the league kickoff scheduled for 2 November 2024,” Ngarizemo said.

The club had initially planned a protest on Wednesday 17 October, but they postponed it due to another event taking place in Gobabis.

“Due to intervention by Mr. Semba we will for now postpone the protest to another date as he will do his best to mediate and also that there is a big event in the region tomorrow in commemoration of National World Food Day at Legare and we therefore rather opted to respect tomorrow's (Wednesday) event as it is an international one.

“We are sorry for the inconvenience, but the team remains on the road in the meantime,” Ngarizemo added.

Young African finished tenth in the previous Debmarine Namibia Premiership season, surviving the threat of relegation.

The club collected 38 points from the 30 matches they played, winning nine while sharing the points in 11 draws. Despite losing 10 matches during the season, their points total was enough to end safely above the relegated three, Okakarara Young Warriors, Orlando Pirates and Life Fighters.