{"id":80452,"date":"2024-11-12T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/benjamin-vows-to-fight"},"modified":"2024-11-12T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:04:00","slug":"benjamin-vows-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/benjamin-vows-to-fight","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin vows to fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Brave Warriors coach Collin Benjamin has vowed to go out fighting when they take on Cameroon and Kenya in their final Afcon 2025 qualifying matches in South Africa over the next week. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Brave Warriors leave for Johannesburg this morning for their \u2018home\u2019 match against Cameroon at Orlando Stadium on Wednesday, while they will remain there before their final qualifying match against Kenya at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane next Tuesday, 19 November.<\/p>\n<p>Namibia is out of contention for a place at the 2025 Afcon finals in Morocco, having lost all four their qualifying matches to date, but Benjamin said they will give it their all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are Brave Warriors and we are going to fight. I always had to fight for everything \u2013 I was in Germany for 20 years, I never gave up, you fight, and that\u2019s what we are going to do, we are going to keep on fighting. I have more appetite now than ever to take this rebuilding process on and I\u2019m looking forward to that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very important to get the players\u2019 mentality right, because even though we are out of the competition, we are still Brave Warriors, and it\u2019s still about national pride. It\u2019s about exposing these young players, putting them in the spotlight, and if they can play well, they can get contracts abroad and make a living for themselves, so there\u2019s definitely a lot to play for,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Brave Warriors are out of Afcon 2025, they are still very much in the race for the 2026 Fifa World Cup, currently lying second in Group H behind Tunisia, and Benjamin said they are also preparing for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still have a very good chance for the World Cup and that\u2019s what we are aiming towards \u2013 to get this group of players in good shape come March when we have to take on the World Cup qualifiers. But we are now in a transition period, where we\u2019re bringing in new, younger players, so they need game time and we need lots of matches, and corporate Namibia has to come in and assist the NFA,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are doing their best to keep all the national teams active, the Brave Gladiators, the u20 national teams, they are all playing in the Cosafa competitions, but the NFA is not an entity that creates revenue. It\u2019s a national team that belongs to the nation, so Namibia has to come to the party to support this transition, to get these young players to a level where we can actually compete,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NFA doesn\u2019t have money and there\u2019s even issues now of us going to South Africa to honour these matches. It might be players not being paid, but the NFA is doing its part and working on it&#8230; The players know the problems, but they are patriotic. I know Deon Hotto will call me tonight, saying \u2018hey coach when can I report for duty\u2019, and (Peter), Shalulile, (Lloyd) Kazapua, and the others, they are all fully on board,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin said it was a huge drawback for Namibia having to play their home matches in South Africa, and called on corporate Namibia to assist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if ten companies say, I\u2019m going to fix the stairs; I\u2019m going to do the VIP room; I\u2019m going to do the field at the Independence Stadium, don\u2019t you think we will get to a stage where the national team can play at the Independence Stadium. If African Stars and Chula Chula can attract 20 000 fans what is the national team able to do at home? It\u2019s not a soccer problem or a coaching or players problem, it\u2019s a Namibian problem, but Namibia is just watching, and that is the problem that we have to address. You have to come to the party guys,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. Brave Warriors coach Collin Benjamin has vowed to go out fighting when they take on Cameroon and Kenya in their final Afcon 2025 qualifying matches in South Africa over the next week. The Brave Warriors leave for Johannesburg this morning for their \u2018home\u2019 match against Cameroon at Orlando Stadium on Wednesday, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":80451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-80452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Benjamin vows to fight - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/benjamin-vows-to-fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benjamin vows to fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. 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