Peter Shalulile

Peter Shalulile

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Position: Centre-Forward

Football Club: Highlands park

Peter Shalulile (born on 23 October 1993 at Eengolo) is a footballer who plays as a striker for the Namibia national football team and South African Premier Division side Highlands Park F.C..
Peter is a product of Tura Magic FC in Namibia, a club that he joined when they were campaigning in the NFA Khomas second division and helped gain promotion in the 2011/2012 season. He made his way up from the U-20 to the Senior Namibia National Soccer Team and scored crucial goals en route to the first ever trophy the COSAFA Cup in 2015.
He joined Highlands Park in a South African second-tier following a good impressive showing-off at the COSAFA Cup in 2015. His two crucial goals in the Playoff encounter against Mbombela at the Makhulong Stadium on 15 June 2016, sent Highlands Park to the top flight of South African football chart.
On the international scene Peter has scored 6 goals for the Brave Warriors, and the most outstanding performance was when Namibia win 1-0 over Niger in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on 4 June 2016.
He was a member of the U/19 Namibian squad that won the Metropolitan U/19 Premier Cup in South Africa in 2011. He is 1.74 m in height. Position: Centre-Forward. His current market value is about €550k (N$8,855,616).

GOALS: 12 | CAPS: 15

Updated - January 2020

History

BRAVE WARRIORS

The Namibia national football team, nicknamed the ''Brave Warriors'', represents Namibia in regional and international football and is controlled by the Namibia Football Association (NFA). The Brave Warriors first played on 23 March 1990 two days after the country gained independence from South Africa, they hosted neighboring Zimbabwe that scop advantage 5–1 over the celebratory fever that was engulfed, Namibian players.

Namibia's first win came on 1 July 1994, with a 1–0 victory in the friendly away match against Botswana. On 17 May 1998, Namibia played their first match outside the African continent against non-African opposition, Saudi Arabia losing 2–1 in a friendly in France. Namibia has made first appearances in the African Cup of Nations in 1998, Namibia lost to Ivory Coast 4–3 and drew with Angola 3–3 before losing to South Africa 4–1. The most capped player of the Brave Warriors is retired midfielder Johannes Hindjou with 69 caps and Rudolph Bester is the all-time top goalscorer with 13 goals.