NAMIBIA LEGENDS IN ACTION AGAINST CLEMS PIRATES FROM THE UK The Namibia Rugby Union is hosting two exciting matches on Saturday, 10 May and Wednesday, 14 May at the Hage Geingob Rugby Stadium, which will be two very unique matches. The matches will be played between a Namibia Legends team and a touring team from the UK, called Clems Pirates. Clems Pirates are known in the North East for their sheer enthusiasm, terrific tours and their fundraising efforts. It was started by brothers Andrew and Stephen Oxenham as a single match to celebrate Stephen’s 40th birthday. It is now a fine example of veterans’ rugby and was affiliated in 2000 to Durham RFU. With the help of their generous sponsor Thompsons of Prudhoe over 150 players have represented the club at home and abroad. The first tour was to Edinburgh and since then they have played around the globe including: South Africa, Germany, Argentina, Uruguay, Holland, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nice, Cuba, Spain, Kuala Lumpur & Singapore and most recently Palma, Majorca. The Pirates will be on Tour to Namibia in May 2014. Whilst on tour they don’t just play Rugby but present local schools with kit and other goodies. Back home Clem’s Pirates have donated a total of almost £60,000 to good causes, including Charities such as, Cystic Fibrosis, St Cuthbert’s Hospice, the North East Air Ambulance, Help for Heroes, Tabitha’s Toys, CRUK. The NRU will choose a school who will benefit from the generous handouts of kit, mouthguards, etc from Clems Pirates. The school will be chosen on Saturday at the match, and the handover will be done next week Wednesday. The school that will be chosen will be selected on Saturday by indication of who has the most spectators from that particular school attending the match. Schools must therefor invite pupils and parents to attend the match on Saturday, and at the entrance the spectators will be asked to write the name of the school who invited them. The school with the most spectators invited will win. The Namibian Legends team consists mainly of players who played for Namibia in previous years, and a large group of the team who played in the very first RWC that Namibia qualified for in 1999 will be in action. The rest of the team is made up of players who played for Namibia after that period and therefor are called Legends. The concept of the Legends team is to involve those players who have done duty for Namibia after their retirement. This tie in with our grassroots program, Get Into Rugby, where the motto is Try, Play, Stay. Players first try the game, then they play the game, and the last phase is to stay in the game as spectator, administrator, coach, referee, match official, etc. The Namibian Legends team is: 1. Eben smith 2. Cor van Tonder 3. JM Meyer 4. Heino Senekal 5. Hardus Swart 6. Schalk van der Merwe 7. Herman Lintvelt 8. Sybrand de Beer 9. Ronaldo Pedro 10. Rudi van Vuuren 11. Deon Mouton 12. Corne Powell 13. Attie Samuelson 14. Vince Dreyer 15. Jaco Kotze 16. Johan Zaayman 17. Jood Opperman 18. Gerald Loubser 19. Deon Gouws 20. Jaco Kotze 21. Pat Kotze 22. Jurie van Tonder 23. Pieter Fick 24. JP Nel 25. Regardt Lourens 26. Jaco Vermaak 27. Wolfie Duvenhage In addition to the main match, the NRU also arranged a number of other games for the rugby loving public. The Namibia U/16 Grant Khomo team will play against an Affies Invitational team. The U/18 Cravenweek team will play against a Wanderers third team. The curtain raiser to the main match will be Central against West. All of these matches promises to display very exciting rugby and will therefor create the right atmosphere for the mian match Namibia Legends vs Clems Piarates. The program for Saturday: 11:00 Namibia U/16 Grant Khomo vs Affies Invitational 12:00 Namibia U/18 Craven Week vs Wanderers 3 13:30 Central vs West 15:00 Namibia Legends vs Clems Pirates Entrance for the day will be N$10 per person, children included. On Wednesday 18:00 Namibia Legends will take on Clems Pirates in the second and last match of the tour. All matches will take place at the Hage Geingob stadium, and all rugby lovers are invited to attend and support the youth and the legends. For more information please contact: Sybrand de Beer / CEO Namibia Rugby Union Hage Geingob Stadium Lichtenstein street Olympia, Windhoek Namibia Phone: +264 61 251 717 Email: [email protected]
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 14:56:48 +0000
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