{"id":233601,"date":"2026-05-18T04:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tales-of-the-legends-tribute-to-departed-sport-icons\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:36:07","slug":"namibia-tales-of-the-legends-tribute-to-departed-sport-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tales-of-the-legends-tribute-to-departed-sport-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Tales of the Legends &#8211; Tribute to Departed Sport Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">Having started his long and winding football journey in the dusty streets of Khorixas with the town&#8217;s leading team, Robber Chanties, hardly out of his pair of shorts, young Arnold Rodney &#8216;Wallace&#8217; Doeseb was destined for greatness. He made his debut for the navy and gold stripe outfit at a very young age and never looked back ever since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">However, the calculated football playing centre back only rose to prominence when he relocated to Copper Town, Tsumeb, to start his teaching career. Upon his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150204.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>Having started his long and winding football journey in the dusty streets of Khorixas with the town&#8217;s leading team, Robber Chanties, hardly out of his pair of shorts, young Arnold Rodney &#8216;Wallace&#8217; Doeseb was destined for greatness. He made his debut for the navy and gold stripe outfit at a very young age and never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233602,"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":[258,256,10437,18694,17463,4706,724,257,254,9325,14492,10225],"class_list":["post-233601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-departed","tag-icons","tag-legends","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sport","tag-tales","tag-tribute"],"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\/233601","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=233601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}