DEFENDER Emma Naris of champions Tura Magic was crowned the best player of the season at the debut Skorpion Zinc NFA Women’s Super League Awards in Windhoek on Friday.
The Brave Gladiators vice captain beat fellow defender Ndapewa Katuta and young forward Beverly Uueziua to the top prize on a momentous night for women’s football in the country.
Katuta and Ueziwa picked up the players’ player and best young player of the season prizes respectively.
An elated Naris said the award would motivate her to perform better.
“I’m very happy happy to receive this award. If it wasn’t for my teammates, I wouldn’t be able to be in this position. So, a big thank you to them. I will definitely work hard for my team and hope that we keep winning,” Naris told The Namibian Sport.
As advertised, Tura Magic goal machine Anne-Marie Shikusho took the top scorer award with her coach Shama Gure named the best gaffer for the season. Melissa Matheus completed the Magician’s dominance of the individual prizes when collecting the best goalkeeper of the season award.
Other winners on the night included Vistorina Shangula (best match official); Antoinette Tsuses (best team manger); Namib Daughters (team of the season) and Helge Schütz (best journalist).
The ceremony marked a landmark occasion for the perennially financially marginalised women’s game which received a huge boost from mining company Skorpion Zinc who last year partnered with Fifa to invest N$1 million over two seasons to resuscitate the Women’s Super League.
“I understand that never before has there been an awards ceremony for women’s football in Namibia. Thank you Skorpion Zinc for looking after our girls,” said Sports Minister Erastus Uutoni in his keynote address.
“This is what we want. We want that our women are treated equal to our men. Whatever the men get, the women should also get,” he added.
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