Amateur football players in the northern provinces know: VAKO is a good place to be. A beautifully situated complex and a new accommodation contribute to this. The only drawback is the surface. Because the fields in Vries have to improve.
Secretary Bas Baalmans and ‘grass master’ Thom van Wijk are club people. For years they have fulfilled functions at the club with the characteristic yellow-red colors. They proudly tell about the brand new accommodation, which will probably soon be made completely energy neutral. There is also pride about the promotion of the VAKO first team, which, after a disappointing first season on Saturday, managed to enforce promotion. VAKO is, the volunteers hope, sportingly on its way back.
But the fields play tricks on the club. Admittedly, Baalmans and Van Wijk can hardly remember that the Vriezer football association had a good field. “As long as I have been on the board – and that has been more than ten years now – the fields have been a point of discussion,” says Baalmans. From a distance, the main field looks like a nice green mat, but whoever walks over it regularly comes across bare spots.