NSSU looking forward to great year
The Namibia Schools Sports Union (NSSU) will have a great year, as the sports body plans to fulfil all its obligations, its national coordinator Solly Duiker said.
In an interview with Nampa on Wednesday after a meeting with officials from the sport ministry, Duiker said he is confident that 2020 will be a productive year.
“During our meeting, we agreed that the Westphalia trip, which sees young footballers competing with their German counterparts, will this year be run by the NSSU instead of the Namibia Football Association (NFA) which has been running the programme,” he said.
The NSSU, he added, will work closely with the directorate of sports as well as the NFA to select players who will travel to Germany later this year.
“Just like we did last year with the Copa Coca-Cola football tournament, we will also have the involvement of teachers in the selection of the team,” Duiker said.
He further revealed that the NSSU has a busy schedule in store for athletics, which will see their star athlete Beatrice Masilingi, ranked fifth in the world and second in Africa at youth level, competing at three major competitions.
This includes the world junior championships, Region five games as well as Confederation of School Sport Associations of Southern Africa (Cossasa) Games.
“Beatrice will not be competing at school events because she has no competition there. We want her to be in good shape for major competitions later this year, therefore, the NSSU will send her to a high-performance centre outside the country so she can improve on her time in the 400-metre sprint,” the national coordinator said.
He added that despite financial constraints, the NSSU will try their best to send athletes out of the country to compete with their counterparts in the Cossasa Games.
In 2019, the NSSU froze all its activities until further notice as per directive from its mother body, the sports ministry, due to a lack of funds.
This prevented athletes competing at grass-root level from representing their country at regional and continental levels.
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In an interview with Nampa on Wednesday after a meeting with officials from the sport ministry, Duiker said he is confident that 2020 will be a productive year.
“During our meeting, we agreed that the Westphalia trip, which sees young footballers competing with their German counterparts, will this year be run by the NSSU instead of the Namibia Football Association (NFA) which has been running the programme,” he said.
The NSSU, he added, will work closely with the directorate of sports as well as the NFA to select players who will travel to Germany later this year.
“Just like we did last year with the Copa Coca-Cola football tournament, we will also have the involvement of teachers in the selection of the team,” Duiker said.
He further revealed that the NSSU has a busy schedule in store for athletics, which will see their star athlete Beatrice Masilingi, ranked fifth in the world and second in Africa at youth level, competing at three major competitions.
This includes the world junior championships, Region five games as well as Confederation of School Sport Associations of Southern Africa (Cossasa) Games.
“Beatrice will not be competing at school events because she has no competition there. We want her to be in good shape for major competitions later this year, therefore, the NSSU will send her to a high-performance centre outside the country so she can improve on her time in the 400-metre sprint,” the national coordinator said.
He added that despite financial constraints, the NSSU will try their best to send athletes out of the country to compete with their counterparts in the Cossasa Games.
In 2019, the NSSU froze all its activities until further notice as per directive from its mother body, the sports ministry, due to a lack of funds.
This prevented athletes competing at grass-root level from representing their country at regional and continental levels.
NAMPA
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