On wednesday September the 11th four of our board members went to the Grolsch Veste to meet the different associations in Enschede and surroundings. This meeting was organized to assure more respect on the soccer fields. Because last season there where a lot of violent incidents during matches in Enschede. Because of this, some associations made a Manifest together. The associations who helped to make this so called Manifest are the FEV (Federation of Enschedese Football associations) de bond for the refferees and the KNVB (dutch football association). 

We as Drienerlo support the Manifest, just like 21 of the 24 other clubs from Enschede. This document consists of two main points: 'The clubs who signed the manifest promise to do something about the swearing and aggressive behaviour on and around the fields. The board promisses to speak to their members about this if they ever come across such situation. We also want to improve the education of referees at the clubs, because these referees are mostly the victims', says Gijs Rekers from the FEV.

The manifest is already showing some positive signs. Clubs from Enschede want to play against each other again and clubs outside of Enschede want to visit our beautiful city again. This will only put the amateur football of our city into a better light.

In the picture below are all the clubs who have signed the Manifest. Every club brought two board members, a referee and a player of their club. We all made a picture together to show the first signs of sportmanship.

Made

2019-11-21 17:36:51

Modified

2019-11-27 14:51:20

Author

sstrik