There are no free-time activities in Lategansvlei, so the kids – inspired by the
2010 World Cup in South Africa – started playing barefoot on dangerous broken
stone surfaces. As you can probably imagine, the Little Karoo desert is not a
fertile ground for actual football pitches. So what do Unioner do when they
don’t have a stadium? They build one! Inspired by how Union fans worked on their
Alte Försterei, Dario and the locals started moving thousands of stones
aside and levelled the ground to create a simple but safe gravel pitch. Just for
fun, he called it Alte Försterei II and started telling tales of
Köpenick. He received several small donations for this first step, most of them
from his guests: football fans from Jena and Braunschweig, but also Unioner.
Speaking of guests: the Urbanskis are actually doing quite well down there, they
still breed ostriches, but the majority of their revenues come from tourists, most of them
German speakers.
When some of his Union friends stayed for a vacation earlier in the year,
they were so thrilled about the Alte Försterei II that they wrote a
piece for the match day programme at home. “Bunki” wrote about it in the
Berliner Kurier newspaper and other local media followed. Around that
time, Dario and his family had planned a quiet evening, watching an Union match
on a tiny TV screen, when suddenly the phone wouldn’t stop ringing. The article
started a big wave of donations that moved him to tears. He “couldn’t believe
what our tiny pitch in the middle of nowhere had suddenly triggered”.
2010 World Cup in South Africa – started playing barefoot on dangerous broken
stone surfaces. As you can probably imagine, the Little Karoo desert is not a
fertile ground for actual football pitches. So what do Unioner do when they
don’t have a stadium? They build one! Inspired by how Union fans worked on their
Alte Försterei, Dario and the locals started moving thousands of stones
aside and levelled the ground to create a simple but safe gravel pitch. Just for
fun, he called it Alte Försterei II and started telling tales of
Köpenick. He received several small donations for this first step, most of them
from his guests: football fans from Jena and Braunschweig, but also Unioner.
Speaking of guests: the Urbanskis are actually doing quite well down there, they
still breed ostriches, but the majority of their revenues come from tourists, most of them
German speakers.
When some of his Union friends stayed for a vacation earlier in the year,
they were so thrilled about the Alte Försterei II that they wrote a
piece for the match day programme at home. “Bunki” wrote about it in the
Berliner Kurier newspaper and other local media followed. Around that
time, Dario and his family had planned a quiet evening, watching an Union match
on a tiny TV screen, when suddenly the phone wouldn’t stop ringing. The article
started a big wave of donations that moved him to tears. He “couldn’t believe
what our tiny pitch in the middle of nowhere had suddenly triggered”.
Alte Försterei 2
Dario Urbanski
PO BOX 1182
Oudtshoorn 6620
Tel: 044 2791800
http://www.sa-reise-forum.de
Dario Urbanski
PO BOX 1182
Oudtshoorn 6620
Tel: 044 2791800
http://www.sa-reise-forum.de