It is squeezing buttocks at football club SV Borger at the moment. In just under a week they will raffle a Ferrari F430, but they have to lose more than 17,000 lots. In the meantime, the tension increases with the volunteers.
“There is slight panic. Volunteers have been working this day and night for six months,” says Arne Joling, head coach at the club. “It would be a shame if you didn’t get the result in the end.”
A committee at SV Borger created the lottery early this year to raise money for the construction of their new club building. The municipality of Borger-Odoorn pays for this, but the club must also invest 300,000 euros itself. The construction has already begun and is on schedule, but the lottery sale is not.
Youth members went along the doors with lottery tickets, there is an extensive advertising on social media and they traveled his city and country with the Ferrari to promote the lottery. However, the desired result has not yet been achieved. To get the three tons, just over 17,000 lottery tickets have to be sold.
If nothing is sold anymore, the club stays with a hole of 150,000 euros. Joling does not want to think about that doom scenario. “We will have to get out of that again without the help of the municipality. And that will be a very tough one.”
To cramp the sale again, the club praises an extra price at the last minute: a thousand euros in your account every month for a year. “We have a very loyal number of lottery buyers. And you hope that everyone will buy another ticket to support the club.”
Joling is not yet bothered: “I am positively voted. I assume that we are still making it and we do everything about it.” Lots are still for sale until Monday afternoon 12 noon. The trek will follow later in the afternoon.