Wolverine
2010-05-10, 21:51
Is it racist or a struggle to preserve ethnic identities?
A Dutch football club has announced it will no longer accept new junior members of foreign descent. It is not the only amateur club struggling with immigrant parents, who organisations claim do less than their share to keep their clubs running.
Sports bags were cast onto the pitch, quickly followed by two boys who wriggled their way through the fence surrounding it. It was 6:15 on a Thursday evening: practice time for the youngest members of amateur football club GLZ, located between some of Rotterdam's multiethnic neighbourhoods.
Junior coach Hatip Ersoy, on his way to the pitch with a net full of footballs, said he had been left aghast by the decision announced by Quick 1888 of last week. This amateur football club in Nijmegen will be putting children of foreign descent who apply for membership on a waiting list, while still allowing native Dutch youth members. "The stupidest thing they could do," Ersoy said. "Isn't a club supposed to be a reflection of its neighbourhood?"
http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2541611.ece/Dutch_football_club_bans_non-native_children
A Dutch football club has announced it will no longer accept new junior members of foreign descent. It is not the only amateur club struggling with immigrant parents, who organisations claim do less than their share to keep their clubs running.
Sports bags were cast onto the pitch, quickly followed by two boys who wriggled their way through the fence surrounding it. It was 6:15 on a Thursday evening: practice time for the youngest members of amateur football club GLZ, located between some of Rotterdam's multiethnic neighbourhoods.
Junior coach Hatip Ersoy, on his way to the pitch with a net full of footballs, said he had been left aghast by the decision announced by Quick 1888 of last week. This amateur football club in Nijmegen will be putting children of foreign descent who apply for membership on a waiting list, while still allowing native Dutch youth members. "The stupidest thing they could do," Ersoy said. "Isn't a club supposed to be a reflection of its neighbourhood?"
http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2541611.ece/Dutch_football_club_bans_non-native_children