en Tjipe Karuuombe

Tjipe Karuuombe
Personal information
Full name	Tjipenandjambi Carl Karuuombe
Date of birth	21 September 2001 (age 23)
Place of birth	Gobabis, Namibia
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Dinamo Tbilisi
Number	30
Youth career
0000–2020	Kaizen
Senior career*
Years	Team
2020–2023	Als Puk Tawana
2023	Loko Vltavín
2023–2024	UNAM
2024–	Dinamo Tbilisi
International career‡
2022–	Namibia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:50, 29 October 2024 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13:17, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Tjipe Karuuombe (born 21 September 2001) is a Namibian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Erovnuli Liga club Dinamo Tbilisi and the Namibia national team.

Club career

Karuuombe started playing football at age six.^[1] He then joined the Kaizen Football Academy. In 2020, he left the club and joined Als Puk Tawana of South Africa's Second Division. He remained with the club until the middle of the 2022–23 season when he made the jump to Europe, joining Loko Vltavín of the Bohemian Football League in the Czech Republic. However, he was limited to one league appearance for the club because of injury and found himself back in Namibia. Following recovery, Karuuombe joined UNAM of the Namibia Premiership in April 2023. In August 2024, the defensive midfielder returned to Europe to trial with nineteen-time Georgian champions Dinamo Tbilisi.^[2] The three-year deal was officially announced the following month.^[3]

On 8 December 2024, in their final game of the season, Karuuombe made his debut for Dinamo Tbilisi.^[4]

Karuuombe represented Namibia at various youth levels, including at the 2020 COSAFA U-20 Cup and the 2021 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations.^[5]^[6]^[7] Karuuombe's national under-20 squad became the first-ever to qualify for a U-20 Africa Cup of Nations by reaching the tournament in 2021.^[1]

Karuuombe was called up to the senior national team by head coach Colin Benjamin for the 2022 COSAFA Cup.^[8] He made his senior international debut in the competition on 15 July 2022 in a 1–0 victory over Mozambique in the semi-final.^[9] He scored his first senior international goal on 5 June 2024 in an eventual 1–1 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification draw with Liberia.^[10]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	5 June 2024	Orlando Stadium, Soweto, South Africa	Liberia	1–0	1–1	2026 FIFA World Cup qualification
Last updated 29 October 2029^[9]

As of match played 10 September 2024^[9]

^ ^a ^b Pienaar, Wouter. "Namibian student ready to represent his country at Afcon". Potchefstroom Herald. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ Josef, Phillipus. "Karuuombe set to join Georgian powerhouse club". The Namibian Sun. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ Kohler, Lorenz. "Ex-NWU Talent Lands Major Move To Europe". idiskitimes.co.za. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ "ოთხი დებიუტი ბოლო ტურში". fcdinamo.ge (in Georgian). FC Dinamo Tbilisi. 8 December 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
^ "Namibia name final squad for COSAFA Qualifiers for TOTAL U-20 Afcon". COSAFA. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ "Namibia confident ahead of 2021 Africa Under-20 Cup of Nations". COSAFA. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ "Young Warriors flies to SA for Cosafa championship tournament". Namibia Daily News. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ Garises, Joe-Chintha. "Brave Warriors COSAFA 2022 squad named". Namibia Daily News. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "NFT profile". National Football Teams. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ Poolman, Andrew. "'No regrets' taken from Liberia draw". Sport Wrap. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ "NWU student to play in Afcon Cup". North-West University. Retrieved 29 October 2024.