Tales of the Legends – Tracking down forgotten football icon Walter Khosan Sokupa …‘Buchter’ washes ashore

Born and raised in the remote Southern harbor town Luderitzbucht in 1951, Walter Khosan Sokupa was a rare gem, indeed a phenomenal footballer who made it his soul’s beat to constantly terrorise and bamboozle robust defenders with sheer speed, football arrogance, amazing skill, and dribbling tricks second to none. The flying winger started playing competitive football for Benguela outfit Flying Eagles Football Club alongside other greats from that neck of the woods. The slightly built tallish attacker operated across all positions in the firing line.

Despite being gravely isolated from her inland counterparts, the unique compact mountainous harbor town Luderitzbucht, with her hard-to-ignore old-fashioned German architecture buildings, has given birth to a significant chunk of great athletes not only on the football pitches but in other spheres as well. Lest we forget, one of the greatest sprinters of all time, Benedictus Botha, is a product of Luderitz. The town is also home to noted academics and prominent personalities in the following sequence: Idah Jimmy, Clement Daniels, Tim Ekandjo, Sidney Martin, Isaac Hamata, John ‘Ayeb’ English, Jimmy Pickering, ‘Rampie’ Links, and Norman Victor, to mention but a few.