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Thought I should start a thread for all other Rugby League news out of PNG that is not related to the Digicel Cup or the PNG Hunters.
To start off PNG lost one of its former Kumul Captains this week.
Not sure many will remember but Bal Numapo was the Kumuls Captain from the late 80's into the early 90's.
https://www.thenational.com.pg/kumul-legend-passes-on/
Kumul legend passes on
FORMER Papua New Guinea Kumuls captain Bal Numapo passed away in Kundiawa, Chimbu, on the weekend.
It is understood that the 57-year-old succumbed to a stroke at around 11.30am on Saturday.
He collapsed and was rushed to Sir Joseph Nombri Kundiawa General Hospital but was pronounced dead.
On Saturday, Simbu administrator Michael Bal Temai led a team of public servants, relatives and friends to Goroka and brought the casket of the former centre to the Glenrowan Funeral Home.
Numapo had a colourful rugby league career from the 1980s to the early 1990s.
He was one of the first Papua New Guinean to join a National Rugby League club, the Canterbury Bulldogs.
Numapo captained the Simbu Warriors, Highlands zone team and Kumuls.
In May 1990, he led the Kumuls to a 20-18 win over the visiting Great Britain Lions at Sir Danny Leahy Oval in Goroka.
Former Lions captain Garry Schofield said then that PNG had produced one of the biggest upsets in rugby league.
Thanks to field goals from Numapo and Stanley Haro, history was made in the rugby league world.
On many occasions, Numapo rubbed shoulders with iconic rugby league figures like Mal Maninga, Wally Lewis and Allan Langer.
Born on Jan 1, 1963, at his Oknell village, Numapo hails from the Kimba Kapma tribes of Dumun in the Tabare local-level government area of Sinasina-Yongomugl.
Aside from rugby league, he started his professional career as a district agriculture officer and worked his way up to be the district administrator of Sinasina-Yongomugl.
Numapo served under former Sinasina-Yongomugl MP Jeffery Nape and current office holder Kerenga Kua.
He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in public administration at Divine Word University on March 15.
To start off PNG lost one of its former Kumul Captains this week.
Not sure many will remember but Bal Numapo was the Kumuls Captain from the late 80's into the early 90's.
https://www.thenational.com.pg/kumul-legend-passes-on/
Kumul legend passes on
FORMER Papua New Guinea Kumuls captain Bal Numapo passed away in Kundiawa, Chimbu, on the weekend.
It is understood that the 57-year-old succumbed to a stroke at around 11.30am on Saturday.
He collapsed and was rushed to Sir Joseph Nombri Kundiawa General Hospital but was pronounced dead.
On Saturday, Simbu administrator Michael Bal Temai led a team of public servants, relatives and friends to Goroka and brought the casket of the former centre to the Glenrowan Funeral Home.
Numapo had a colourful rugby league career from the 1980s to the early 1990s.
He was one of the first Papua New Guinean to join a National Rugby League club, the Canterbury Bulldogs.
Numapo captained the Simbu Warriors, Highlands zone team and Kumuls.
In May 1990, he led the Kumuls to a 20-18 win over the visiting Great Britain Lions at Sir Danny Leahy Oval in Goroka.
Former Lions captain Garry Schofield said then that PNG had produced one of the biggest upsets in rugby league.
Thanks to field goals from Numapo and Stanley Haro, history was made in the rugby league world.
On many occasions, Numapo rubbed shoulders with iconic rugby league figures like Mal Maninga, Wally Lewis and Allan Langer.
Born on Jan 1, 1963, at his Oknell village, Numapo hails from the Kimba Kapma tribes of Dumun in the Tabare local-level government area of Sinasina-Yongomugl.
Aside from rugby league, he started his professional career as a district agriculture officer and worked his way up to be the district administrator of Sinasina-Yongomugl.
Numapo served under former Sinasina-Yongomugl MP Jeffery Nape and current office holder Kerenga Kua.
He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in public administration at Divine Word University on March 15.