{"id":199923,"date":"2025-06-11T01:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-kudus-make-history-as-cup-goes-to-the-coast\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T01:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:20:51","slug":"namibia-kudus-make-history-as-cup-goes-to-the-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-kudus-make-history-as-cup-goes-to-the-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Kudus Make History As Cup Goes to the Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>FNB Kudus made history on Saturday when they won their first-ever Rugby Premier League title with a stunning 50-32 victory against FNB Wanderers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Walvis Bay Rugby Club had previously won the title twice, in 1975 when they shared the trophy with Wanderers and two years later when they were the sole champions, and now 50 years later, the cup once again returns to the coast after an epic final against Wanderers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Kudus&#8217; young flyhalf Michael Koopman was the player of the match scoring two&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506100531.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNB Kudus made history on Saturday when they won their first-ever Rugby Premier League title with a stunning 50-32 victory against FNB Wanderers. Walvis Bay Rugby Club had previously won the title twice, in 1975 when they shared the trophy with Wanderers and two years later when they were the sole champions, and now 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6560,6674,7099,22382,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-199923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coast","tag-cup","tag-history","tag-kudus","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}