{"id":231459,"date":"2026-04-26T03:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-blue-waters-ready-for-unam-test-in-top-8-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:47:14","slug":"namibia-blue-waters-ready-for-unam-test-in-top-8-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-blue-waters-ready-for-unam-test-in-top-8-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Blue Waters Ready for Unam Test in Top 8 Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>VEN Blue Waters FC chairperson Mathias Haufiku says his side is ready for a tough knockout clash against Unam FC in the 2026 Standard Bank Top 8 Cup.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Walvis Bay-based outfit will face Unam FC in one of the quarter-final fixtures scheduled for 2 and 3 May at Vineta Stadium at Swakopmund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Reacting to the draw held in Windhoek yesterday, Haufiku says the team is focused on delivering on the day, given the high stakes of knockout football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240685.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>VEN Blue Waters FC chairperson Mathias Haufiku says his side is ready for a tough knockout clash against Unam FC in the 2026 Standard Bank Top 8 Cup. The Walvis Bay-based outfit will face Unam FC in one of the quarter-final fixtures scheduled for 2 and 3 May at Vineta Stadium at Swakopmund. Reacting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231460,"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":[258,256,8473,6674,4706,724,257,8479,254,6596,7319,9261,7109],"class_list":["post-231459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blue","tag-cup","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-ready","tag-south-africa-today","tag-test","tag-top","tag-unam","tag-waters"],"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\/231459","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=231459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}