{"id":54587,"date":"2023-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatribune.com\/?guid=26e782d212c87e97508eabf63817a86c"},"modified":"2023-04-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T00:00:00","slug":"otjozondjupa-challenging-netball-defending-champion-khomas-in-newspaper-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatribune.com\/otjozondjupa-challenging-netball-defending-champion-khomas-in-newspaper-cup-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Otjozondjupa challenging netball defending champion Khomas in Newspaper Cup finals"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Otjozondupa regional football team will play against Oshana Region in the semi-finals, while Kavango West will face Hardap in the 21st edition of The Namibian Newspaper Cup underway at Otjiwarongo.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The regional teams that qualified for the finals and semi-finals in the football and netball games were officially announced Sunday afternoon by Namibian Football Association (NFA) national organising committee member, Cassius Moetie at the Paresis Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe semi-finals will be played on Monday morning with the winners of the two football matches then qualifying to play the finals, set for Monday afternoon at 14h00,\u201d said Moetie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Loser teams in the semi-finals\u2019 football groups will also face each other on Monday in order for them to qualify for the third and fourth positions, he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In netball, four teams also played each other to qualify for the final games, as well as the third and fourth positions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Otjozondjupa netball team will now play Khomas in the finals, while the Omaheke and Kavango West regions\u2019 netball teams will face each other to fight for the third slot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Khomas is the defending champion in the netball, while the Zambezi Region\u2019s football team which was the defending champion, was knocked out on Sunday by the Otjozondjupa Region by 3 goals to nil.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: The Namibian Press Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Otjozondupa regional football team will play against Oshana Region in the semi-finals, while Kavango West will face Hardap in the 21st edition of The Namibian Newspaper Cup underway at Otjiwarongo.The regional teams that qualified for the finals an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n