Crum Court opened

Leeuwarden 22th October 2010

Korfball as an outdoor sport has a long history in the Netherlands.
When I was 10 years old I spent almost every day playing some kind of outdoor street korfball on a small piece of grass, nearby my home, that had a korfballpost. All my schoolmates joint this activity.  These korfball pitches were quite common and found nearby the houses and often the elementaryschool.
Today, there is still outdoor korfball in the Netherlands, but a lot has changed as well. Clubs now have artificial grass pitches and a clubhouse where the members of the club can meet eachother after trainings and matches. But the biggest change in outdoor korfball is maybe that the pitch can no longer be found in the centre of the village or nearby a school. Korfball outdoor is banned from the centre of the cities and villages; instead you can only find the pitches in the outskirts. Since some years there were initiatives by famous Dutch sportsmen, Cruijff (soccer) and Krajicek (tennis) to found special pitches and playgrounds in the cities where young people can train themselves in soccer or tennis.
However, before today there were no special playgrounds for outdoor korfball.
In Leeuwarden a member of club Wêz Warber, mr Gosse Dijkstra fulfilled this dream. He realised a special korfball court nearby houses and  two elementary schools. But the most special thing to me was that that this court got named after me: the CRUM Korfball Court. I am very honoured and very gratefull!