Nande Yer was born about 1970 in Ialibu, a small village in the Southern Highlands Province of what was then the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, under the control of Australia.
[2] His cousin, Raymond Kahl, is also a Papua New Guinean footballer.
[3] Yer played for the Mendi Muruks and represented the Northern Zone in 1991 against the touring Great Britain Lions.
[4] Yer died on 1 December 2012, at the Port Moresby General Hospital after a heart attack.
He is survived by his wife, Bida, and three children, Brownwin, Norberta, and Makena.