The boys from Berkel en Rodenrijs performed their first ever residence sport within the Promotion League on Sunday. The membership is experiencing a dream 12 months of their anniversary 12 months, however can be tempering expectations for the approaching years. The tradition is extra essential on the South Hollanders than efficiency. They did all the pieces they might to show the primary residence sport into a giant get together, nonetheless, opponent Ring Cross threw a spanner within the works by successful 4-3.
Berkel en Rodenrijs had carried out all the pieces doable final Sunday to draw as many individuals as doable to sport park Het Hoge Land. There have been flyers with the names and heads of all gamers of Girls 1 and Males 1, a DJ supplied the ambiance all afternoon and after the boys’s sport even a saxophonist carried out. The membership had motive sufficient to get together: this season Males’s 1 will play within the Promotion League for the primary time and the primary residence match was the second to have a good time.
Board member Sjors Driegen visibly loved the ambiance. ‘It will not be as particular as honoring the championship in the course of the anniversary celebration, however it’s nonetheless fantastic that we at the moment are competing within the Promotion Class.’ Final 12 months the boys shocked by taking the title within the Transitional Class which resulted in promotion to the second degree. The truth that the membership was precisely fifty years previous on the time made it additional particular. ‘We’re most likely not going to prime that, however that is one other nice milestone for our household membership.’
Berkel followers had are available massive numbers. Photograph: Frank van der Leer
The bond between Heren 1 and the membership
That Berkel en Rodenrijs is a membership with a variety of connection is confirmed by the primary crew. ‘There are at the moment ten gamers in Heren 1 who coach or have coached with a junior crew,’ Stefan van der Ree, coach and former participant of the primary crew, advised me. ‘We wish that too, as a result of that’s how you retain the bond between membership and participant robust. It is necessary for us to have a steady base, as a result of that’s the solely manner we are able to proceed to carry out as a membership.’
Berkel want to protect that tradition. However captain Teun Mooldijk primarily thinks concerning the brief time period. ‘I need to hold enjoying discipline hockey on the highest doable degree in any respect prices. We’ve come right here now and we’re going to do all the pieces we are able to to remain in it.’
Coach Stefan van der Ree (left) in the course of the sport. Photograph: Frank van der Leer
Unsuitable decisions and pointless playing cards
Berkel may have taken the fitting step in direction of a very good season ending Sunday in opposition to Ring Cross. A sport that began as you count on from a sport between two newly promoted groups: filled with power, however with the required sloppiness. The sport went all methods. After eleven minutes it was already 1-1. The choice got here after halftime, when Ring Cross ran out to 2-4 by objectives by Remko Saraber and Mattijn Triezenberg. That made the third purpose by Mooldijk and van Berkel and one for the statistics. It additionally didn’t assist that the house crew acquired a inexperienced and two yellow playing cards in that closing levels.
Afterwards, Mooldijk was visibly disillusioned. ‘It’s such an unimaginable disgrace that you just lose on this manner. Towards these guys within the preparation we performed maybe our greatest sport up to now, and at present we failed to achieve that degree. Such an statement is enormously irritating.’ Consequently, he may probably not benefit from the festivities. ‘Some can change over lots simpler, however I’ll most likely be balking for the remainder of the day.’
Van der Ree noticed that his crew had centered itself an excessive amount of on the opponent at instances. ‘It appeared like there was an excessive amount of rigidity, so we made flawed decisions. We picked up pointless playing cards and misplaced management in phases. At this degree that will get punished instantly. The place final 12 months we may have a lesser interval with out penalties, now we’re paying the value for that instantly.’
Mooldijk is comfortable along with his objectives. Photograph: Frank van der Leer
