{"id":359348,"date":"2011-04-01T13:26:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T13:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/01\/namibia-bank-pledges-n150-000-to-premier-league\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T13:26:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T13:26:39","slug":"namibia-bank-pledges-n150-000-to-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/namibia-bank-pledges-n150-000-to-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Bank Pledges N$150 000 to Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"54.868347338936\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com.na\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/39c6c1c6namecon180.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Namibia Economist (Windhoek)\" title=\"Visit Namibia Economist (Windhoek)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p> 1 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The First National Bank (FNB) of Namibia announced this week that it will give an additional N$150 000 as a performance bonus to the winner and the runner-up of this year&#8217;s MTC premier league, provided that the two clubs are from the FNB sponsored teams.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon Norval, FNB&#8217;s head of strategic marketing and communications, said a whopping N$100,000 will be for the winner of the league, which must be one of the bank&#8217;s sponsored teams and N$50 000 to the runners up, which must also be a sponsored team of the bank.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that soccer, as the people&#8217;s game, is a practical way for us to touch the people of Namibia. We are also aware of the powerful support-base football as a sport code commands, hence the sound business relations between FNB and the six football clubs we are sponsoring,&#8221; Norval added.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on today&#8217;s (Friday 1 April) match between the bank&#8217;s sponsored teams, African Stars and Black Africa at the Sam Nujoma Stadium in Katutura, Norval said the bank will always appreciate it when sponsored clubs rise to the occasion and compete in national football tournaments of high standard which brings people from all walks of life together in good sportsmanship.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Black Africa captain, Hartman Toromba said he is quite confident that his team will emerge the winner of today&#8217;s match because of the strength of the team with good technical and tactical knowledge from the coach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are up for the match, we will do what our technical staff tell us to do on the field. Believe me we are going to win this game,&#8221; Toromba said.<\/p>\n<p>The team manager of African Stars, Lesley Kozonguizi, said his team does not want to talk football but play the game. He said:&#8221;may the best team win the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/39c6c1c6namecon180.jpg-150x25.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104010758.html\" title=\"Namibia: Bank Pledges N$150 000 to Premier League\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Namibia: Bank Pledges N$150 000 to Premier League<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 1 April 2011 The First National Bank (FNB) of Namibia announced this week that it will give an additional N$150 000 as a performance bonus to the winner and the runner-up of this year&#8217;s MTC premier league, provided that the two clubs are from the FNB sponsored teams. Dixon Norval, FNB&#8217;s head of strategic marketing and communications, said a whopping N$100,000 will be for the winner of the league, which must be one of the bank&#8217;s sponsored teams and N$50 000 to the runners up, which must also be a sponsored team of the bank. &#8220;We believe that soccer, as the people&#8217;s game, is a practical way for us to touch the people of Namibia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Namibia: Bank Pledges N$150 000 to Premier League - Ghanamma.com<\/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.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/namibia-bank-pledges-n150-000-to-premier-league\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Namibia: Bank Pledges N$150 000 to Premier League - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"1 April 2011 The First National Bank (FNB) of Namibia announced this week that it will give an additional N$150 000 as a performance bonus to the winner and the runner-up of this year&#039;s MTC premier league, provided that the two clubs are from the FNB sponsored teams. 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