{"id":239486,"date":"2026-07-25T19:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-samaria-the-man-whos-seen-every-side-of-the-game\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:23:15","slug":"namibia-samaria-the-man-whos-seen-every-side-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-samaria-the-man-whos-seen-every-side-of-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Samaria &#8211; the Man Who&#8217;s Seen Every Side of the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Player, referee, referee co-ordinator, and match commissioner &#8211; few people in Namibian football have worn as many hats as former Eleven Arrows winger and chairman Frans &#8216;Killa&#8217; Samaria.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">His legacy isn&#8217;t just the matches he played or officiated, but also the match officials he has trained as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Samaria celebrated goals as an electrifying young winger for Arrows, cancelled them as a referee, and afterwards decided who gets to make those calls as a referees instructor.<\/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>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607240512.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>Player, referee, referee co-ordinator, and match commissioner &#8211; few people in Namibian football have worn as many hats as former Eleven Arrows winger and chairman Frans &#8216;Killa&#8217; Samaria. His legacy isn&#8217;t just the matches he played or officiated, but also the match officials he has trained as well. Samaria celebrated goals as an electrifying young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8500,6867,4706,724,257,37056,10473,254,22433],"class_list":["post-239486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-game","tag-man","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-samaria","tag-side","tag-south-africa-today","tag-whos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239486","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=239486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}