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On May
29, 2010 a 6-a-side soccer (a.k.a. 'football') match was organized by
the Department of Dutch
and South
African
Studies, in which 6 brave IFA teachers took on a barbarian horde
of IFA students (reports vary on the exact number of the
horde,
but parties involved claim anything from 9 to 300). Another furious clash took place on the side of the pitch, where the staff cheerleaders, outnumbered 7 to 1, did battle with a student cheerleading team mercilessly led by Marcelina Hertmann. The brave staff, lovingly dubbed 'Team Marlboro' fought courageously in a bloody first half which lasted anything from 30 minutes to half a day, according to various sources. When finally they managed to dispatch the horde, scores were level at 4-4. During an uneasy ceasefire that lasted all of ten minutes, some of the teachers were heard cursing the foul brew that they had been served the night before, claiming sabotage and foul play, which surely merits an official [F]IFA inquiry. But lo, the battle horns did sound, and as the courageous IFA staff assembled in formation to charge once more into the breach, my friends, it appeared that yet more, new barbarians had joined the maraudering horde. It seemed the wall would indeed by filled with the English dead. All could see that the strain of the first half had taken a heavy toll, most particularly on the impartiality of referee Robert de Louw, who, in a half played almost exclusively in the staff's goalbox, failed to award ANY penalties within easy shooting range of the students' goal. As a result, after another brutal '30' minutes, the end result was 10-5, in favour of the students. (The staff wish to congratulate the students on a well-deserved victory). Man of the match was unanimously agreed to be Chris Whyatt, goalkeeper of the staff team. All in all, we consider the event very successful and hope to be organizing similar matches in the future. A big thank you to everyone who participated! Football players (students): Dawid Zdanowicz – Captain – 1BA Dutch Paweł Jaskółka, 1BA Paweł Mazur, 1MA Krzysztof Mazur, 1MA Michał Czerwonecki 1BA Dutch Paweł Goderski, 1MA Jan Trawiński, IFA Michał Rogowski 1BA Rafał Jończyk, 1MA Football players (teachers): Tertius Kapp – Captain – Department of Dutch and South African Studies Paul Newsham – Center for English Language Teaching Christopher Whyatt – Center for English Language Teaching – MAN OF THE MATCH! Cormac Anderson – Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Dave Knott – Center for English Language Teaching Mysterious super-sub Brendan … Cheerleaders (students): Marcelina Hertmann – Captain – 2BA Afrikaans Małgorzata Lipka – 2BA Afrikaans Aleksandra Leończyk – 2BA Irmina Kudrycka – 2BA Afrikaans Anna Jasiak – 2BA Afrikaans Aleksandra Sadulska – 1BA Dutch Christine Kern – 1MA (on Erasmus) – cheered for both teams Cheerleaders (teachers): Ewa Dynarowicz – Captain – Department of Dutch and South African Studies Referee: Robert de Louw – Department of Dutch and South African Studies Photographer: Katarzyna Wiercińska – Department of Dutch and South African Studies Many thanks to Cyryl Kwaśniewski (1BA Dutch) and Jagoda Szulia for their help and to Warta Poznań for letting us use one of their pitches free of charge. Robert de Louw and Tertius Kapp |
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(all pictures by Katarzyna Wiercińska)
Righteous Warriors
Barbarian Horde
Student Cheerleading Team (and referee)
The Onslaught
The
One That Got Away
Uniwersytet im. Adama
Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Wydział Anglistyki
Niderlandy RPA w UAM
Dutch & South African Studies Poznań
Wydział Anglistyki
Niderlandy RPA w UAM
Dutch & South African Studies Poznań
