Let’s all celebrate Young Brazilians FC

ALVENUS F DREYER WRITES:

Karasburg football outfit Young Brazilians defied all odds by featuring in the final of the recently ended most coveted soccer competition in Namibia, the PsTBet NFA.

Some teams, if not many who over the decades featured in this competition, formerly known as the Namibia Football Association (NFA) Cup by virtue of them playing in the country’s top league, still only dreams about reaching the final let alone winning it.

As tough as the competition has been over the years it was and still is almost impossible for a newcomer to the premier league or second division team to reach the final of this competition. If football history can correctly recall, the quarter and semi-finals of this cup has always been about the highest-rated teams in bigger towns and the City of Windhoek.

But this time around a team from a small southern town, as new as they are in the newly re-branded Namibia Premier League, reaches the final putting up a five-star performance.

This the boys did against one of Namibia’s biggest football teams if not the biggest. African Stars FC is amongst the best resourced teams in the country, if one can consider important basic resources such as money, technicality and fan base support.

The feat achieved by Young Brazilians FC must be embraced with joy and gratitude by us all and be fully celebrated. This feat must inspire other soccer teams from all over Namibia and particularly smaller towns and villages to believe in the impossible and continue serving football with pride and purpose.

I am not a Young Brazilian FC supporter but from my personal point of view I believe that pride and purpose is what brought this team to feature in Namibia’s modern day football history. Since they joined the premier league they have been consistent, even in the positions they occupied on the log standings in Namibia’s elite football league as they continue to represent the ||Kharas region.

Well-done Young Brazilians FC and also well-done to all those role-players and supporters for being behind the team.

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