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Former right wingback Theodore Tom’s endurance, pace, and defending ability have propelled the Beautiful Birds, as Blue Waters are popularly known, to numerous successes.<\/em><\/p>\n This included a premier league, four Christmas Cups, and an FNB Cup.<\/p>\n Born at Opuwo, Tom, who entered top-flight football in the colours of Black Africa (BA) in 1998, says it was never his intention to play for BA, and he ended up at the giants of Namibian football by pure luck.<\/p>\n “In fact, I grew up supporting Tigers and I wanted…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Former right wingback Theodore Tom’s endurance, pace, and defending ability have propelled the Beautiful Birds, as Blue Waters are popularly known, to numerous successes. This included a premier league, four Christmas Cups, and an FNB Cup. Born at Opuwo, Tom, who entered top-flight football in the colours of Black Africa (BA) in 1998, says it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201162,"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":[258,256,51754,9309,4706,724,257,7223,254,25772,6100],"class_list":["post-201161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-exwingback","tag-hard","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pays","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tom","tag-work"],"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\/201161","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=201161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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