{"id":216190,"date":"2025-12-09T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-sign-off-in-style\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:04:43","slug":"southern-africa-namibia-sign-off-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-sign-off-in-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Namibia Sign Off in Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>Namibia signed off with a win as they beat Oman 4-2 in their final match at the Junior Men&#8217;s Hockey World Cup on Monday to finish 23rd out of 24 nations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Oman opened the scorting with a penalty by Maitham Al Wahaibi at the end of the first quarter, but Namibia came back strongly in the second quarter. Josh van der Merwe equalised with a field goal while another field goal by Gerhard Myburgh gave them the lead for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Oman fought back and equalidsed when captaion Alhussin Al Hasni&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512090593.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>Namibia signed off with a win as they beat Oman 4-2 in their final match at the Junior Men&#8217;s Hockey World Cup on Monday to finish 23rd out of 24 nations. Oman opened the scorting with a penalty by Maitham Al Wahaibi at the end of the first quarter, but Namibia came back strongly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216191,"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":[258,256,4706,724,257,4368,254,7153,16980],"class_list":["post-216190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-style"],"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\/216190","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=216190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}