Eises repents in hope of getting Gladiators place back

Former Brave Gladiators goalkeeper Susanna Eises wants back into the national team as the CAF Women’s Championships draws closer. Eises was suspended from the national team along with Shirley Cloete in 2012 due to their failure to honour a national team call-up. The two were also suspended from their club, Okahandja Beauties, due to their absence. Cloete returned last year after she came clean about the shenanigans that led to their suspensions. “I finally have to come out with the truth. I truly messed up and got mixed up with the wrong crowd and it was not good. I let my coaches, managers and players down and I regret that... All I want is a second chance to represent my country, because I love the game and I regret that I chose to be wayward. I am sorry,” Eises said. The 22 year-old Eises started off with the Brave Gladiators in 2006 as a defender and starred for the team in that position until she was converted into a goalkeeper in mid-2011, a position she held onto until her sudden abandonment of the team in July 2012. She was part of the Okahandja Beauties football club which competes in the Women’s Super League. Eises added that her decision to return to football is merely because of her love for the game even though it is also her dream to be part of a major football extravaganza such as the one Namibia is set to host from October11-25: the CAF Women’s Championship. “It is everyone’s dream to represent your country and with the Women’s Championship coming up and having played the game for as long I can remember, I think I have the ability to add value to our national team and contribute to our success at the tournament on our home soil. It is an opportunity of a lifetime and I want to be part of it. I apologise for my past mistakes and I have since become wiser and older and hope to make better decision as life goes on,” she added. Jacky Gertze of the Namibia Football Association’s Women Desk stated that all players are welcome back into football once they sincerely apologise for their actions and show the team management that they are willing to change their ways and play the game. “She was a good player and if she apologises genuinely to the nation and to the team, we can see how we can help her. Otherwise, she is a good goalkeeper [but] it will take some hard work for her to regain her place at her club and at the national team,” Gertze said. WINDHOEK-NFA.ORG.NA