Place of birth Onekwaya, Namibia 1996-1999 Blue Boys F.C. Years Team Height 1.85 m | Number 8 Role Footballer Playing position Name Tugela Tuyeni Position Midfielder | |
Date of birth (1982-05-02) 2 May 1982 (age 33) | ||
Current team F.C. Civics Windhoek | ||
Tugela Tuyeni (born 5 February 1982 Onekwaya in the Ohangwena Region - died 16 December 2016 Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region) was a Namibian midfield footballer with F.C. Civics Windhoek of the Namibia Premier League and the Namibia national football team.
Tugela fled into exile for the liberation of Namibia as a little boy tailing his parents to various refugee camps in Angola and Zambia respectively during Namibia’s liberation war against the South African apartheid regime. He then became a resident of Swakopmund where he was placed in the care of his aunt to start his primary education until he completed his secondary education at Namibia’s most revered holiday resort.
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