Tugela Tuyeni

Tugela Tuyeni

Personal information
Date of birth	(1982-05-02) 2 May 1982
Place of birth	Onekwaya, Namibia
Date of death	16 December 2016(2016-12-16) (aged 34)
Place of death	Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	F.C. Civics Windhoek
Number	8
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996–1999	Blue Boys F.C.
1999–2004	Blue Waters F.C.
2005–present	F.C. Civics
International career
2008–	Namibia	2	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.