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Namibian footballer

Eliphas "Safile" Shivute (born 27 September 1974) is a Namibian retired international footballer.

He retired from football due to a knee injury in 2002 after a career spent in Chinese and European football, as well as domestically.

Shivute became the first Namibian to play for a top-level side in Europe, and also, is the man who scored the first international goal for the Brave Warriors.^[1]

Club career

Born in Olukonda, Shivute grew up in Kuisebmond, Walvis Bay^[2] and, affectionately known as Safile (Elifas spelled backwards), started playing in 1989 for local side Blue Waters, and later Eleven Arrows^[1] He then played for German Fifth Division Schwarz-Weiß Düren in 1996, a non-professional side for which he scored over 13 goals in a short spell.^[1] When he scored a hat trick for Düren in one of the league matches that the Alemannia Aachen scouts spotted him and immediately entered into negotia