{"id":431288,"date":"2011-05-27T10:03:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T10:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/27\/blue-boys-down-gunners-survive\/"},"modified":"2011-05-27T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T10:03:15","slug":"blue-boys-down-gunners-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/27\/blue-boys-down-gunners-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Boys Down, Gunners Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"43.392942425\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/namibian180.jpg\" alt=\"The Namibian (Windhoek)\" title=\"Visit The Namibian (Windhoek)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheefeni Nikodemus<\/p>\n<p>23 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Dethroned league champions African Stars ended Blue Boys&#8217; brief stay in the top flight with a 2-0 win in Windhoek on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Swakopmund side, who before this season had never played in the elite division, joined Oshakati City as the two teams to drop out of the premier league.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Boys needed to win their final game to stay up and hope that Mighty Gunners or Civics fail to pick up points. Ironically Civics played Gunners on Saturday, winning 1-0 courtesy of Lucky Maselesele&#8217;s first league goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>However Blue Boys&#8217; fate was sealed just before halftime when Stars&#8217; right-back Denis Ngueza tapped in the first goal, following neat interplay in the box.<\/p>\n<p>And their misery was compounded midway through the second-half as defender Linovene Heita inadvertently misdirected an Edwin Korukuve cross into his own net.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team did not have enough premier league experience,&#8221; Blue Boys head coach Betuel Rasta Mbuende told The Namibian Sport after the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think sometimes that lack of experience made that sometimes they don&#8217;t believe in themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite their relegation, Mbuende said the club had performed admirably in their historic first season as top-flight campaigners.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the team intended to return next season and hoped his star players &#8211; especially talisman Jordan Haimbili &#8211; would remain to help the club to achieve that ambition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe we did well to be promoted and play in the premier league for the first time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will come back. You obviously don&#8217;t know who will stay and who will go but since most of the guys are homegrown, I think they will stay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other results, Oshakati City lost 2-1 at home to Tigers, Eleven Arrows beat SKW 2-0, Pirates won 0-1 at Ramblers while league champions Black Africa drew 1-1 against Blue Waters.<\/p>\n<p>Even though they lost, Ramblers finished second on the log to earn N$300 000 with third-placed Pirates collecting N$200 000 for their efforts.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105270363.html\" title=\"Blue Boys Down, Gunners Survive\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Boys Down, Gunners Survive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Sheefeni Nikodemus 23 May 2011 Dethroned league champions African Stars ended Blue Boys&#8217; brief stay in the top flight with a 2-0 win in Windhoek on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-431288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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