{"id":235393,"date":"2026-06-05T05:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mighty-gunners-hungrier-after-top-8-success\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:15:31","slug":"namibia-mighty-gunners-hungrier-after-top-8-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mighty-gunners-hungrier-after-top-8-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Mighty Gunners Hungrier After Top 8 Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>Mighty Gunners FC head coach Leonald Nambandi says his side is hungry for more success after being crowned the 2026 Standard Bank Top 8 champions in Windhoek.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Responding to questions by <em>The Namibian Sport,<\/em> Nambandi says winning the Standard Bank Top 8 was important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;Winning the Top 8 was a historic achievement for the club, but one of the biggest challenges in football is remaining hungry after success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">&#8220;From the first day after&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606040690.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>Mighty Gunners FC head coach Leonald Nambandi says his side is hungry for more success after being crowned the 2026 Standard Bank Top 8 champions in Windhoek. Responding to questions by The Namibian Sport, Nambandi says winning the Standard Bank Top 8 was important. &#8220;Winning the Top 8 was a historic achievement for the club, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235394,"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":[258,256,13807,54541,14384,4706,724,257,254,12051,7319],"class_list":["post-235393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gunners","tag-hungrier","tag-mighty","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-success","tag-top"],"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\/235393","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=235393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}