In the Amateur Football in Bird’s-eye section, we take a tour of the amateur fields in Drenthe and Groningen for notable events. This time there is plenty of room for a Pupil of the Week in dirndl at Omlandia-Corenos. A match that completely went off the rails in the final phase.
What happened in the match in the fourth class E between on Saturday Omlandia and Corenos in Ten Boer? A better question is what didn’t happen before and during that match. It started on Thursday, when Omlandia was forced to cover a large canvas with a photo and the text ‘Welcome to Omlandia’ with garbage bags due to the new advertising tax of the municipality of Groningen.
Then the competition day itself. It started cheerfully with a very special pupil of the week. After the match there was an Oktoberfest on the program and where normally a little football player in club uniform can try to score in the opponent’s goal, it was now up to Meike Emmelkamp, player of Omlandia Vrouwen 1, to help the defenders and the goalkeeper of to outwit the lords of Omlandia. Not in club uniform, but in the traditional Bavarian dirndl that she already wore for the Oktoberfest. The Instagram account of the women of Omlandia shows that Jeroen Dijkhuizen showed no mercy and Meike went to the ground after a ruthless tackle (ahem). But she got up again and not much later shot… at the post.
That’s the fun part of the afternoon, because in the real match the atmosphere completely changed at the end. Omlandia fell behind 2-1 just before the end – it was already ten against ten due to two ‘normal’ red cards. With a corner for Omlandia in the third of five minutes of stoppage time, things went wild. Corenos coach Marco Pesiwarissa saw it happen from the bench and described the chaos, as far as possible.
“Supporters came onto the field and it also rubbed off on the players. I also lost track a bit in the long run, but at least my caregiver was attacked by a spectator. One from Omlandia also received a red card due to a striking movement. Some players tried to calm it down, but it was all really sad. You saw crying children who thought: ‘what is happening here?’ The referee stopped the match, which seemed fair to me. Well, now we might have to go back to Ten Boer for two minutes of injury time.”
Bee Hoogeveen two players worked overtime on Saturday. Due to the advent of weekend football, the Saturday team also sometimes plays on Sunday and so it happened that Twan Reinders and Jan ten Cate were in the match selections of both teams on the same day. In Leek they first drew 1-1 with the Saturday team in the afternoon VEV ’67 . They returned quickly and skillfully to Hoogeveen to initially see from the bench that the score was also 1-1 there, against Urk. Reinders came on five minutes before the end.
Peize only has a Sunday team and in recent years the derbies have mainly been played against Roden, which is located a few kilometers west of them. But after relegation to the third division, they met their eastern neighbor again yesterday: Active from Eelde-Paterswolde. That was a while ago and it did not seem to be a nice new acquaintance for the blue shirts, because it was 2-1 for the guests for a long time. Patrick Timmer still scored a point in the final phase.
Finally, a happy fact for the Groningen city teams FC Lewenborg and VVG . They both recorded their first victory of the season in the second division on Saturday. Both won 3-2, respectively Achilles 1894 and Grijpskerk . At VVG, fifty-year-old Jack Venema scored one of the goals.