Warriors loses its record

When Malawi played the Brave Warriors in the last week of March 2008 at the
Independence stadium, they achieved what they never have over the past 18
years ˆ beating Namibia.

To compound matters, the defeat for Namibia was on home turf against a side
that has become the whipping boys of Southern African soccer.

But, as they say, you are only as good as your last game, Namibia probably
underestimated the visitors, fielded a wholly home-based team and paid the
prize for it. Malawi on the other hand, selected their best personnel and
got their desired feat over the Brave Warriors.

And the Brave Warriors only have themselves to blame for their poor
performance and inability to capitalize on scoring chances.

Also, the Namibian players learned that they still had a lot to learn on the
international stage, particularly that they should not underestimate
opponents.

Buoyed by the performance in the Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana in February,
the soccer loving supporters turned up in droves to see the home side
annihilate the Malawian Flames but they went back home with sore hearts and
heaps of issues to complain about the team.

Namibia fell behind by two goals in the first half and hopes rose that the
Warriors would pull something special out of the bag in the second half.
They did that when they scored the first goal which was however shortlived
as the Flames came back with the clincher which saw Namibia‚s unbeaten
record against the Malawians shattered to pieces.

Namibia will play Zimbabwe in May in the new continental championship to be
competed by local-based players only.