Soccer legends meet for fundraiser
Hundreds of soccer legends and friends met up at Escombe Football Club for a fundraiser lunch.
MORE than 270 Escombe Football Club supporters pitched up to the the club’s fundraiser, Legends’ Lunch, on Friday, 20 March at the club’s premises in Queensburgh.
Escombe Football Club in Bowker Road, Queensburgh was established in 1926 and is one of the oldest surviving clubs in the eThekwini Metro area. The club, in association with Expro – Friends Through Sport (expro.co.za) and supported by the Marshalls World of Sport, hosted a fundraising lunch where past and present players, coaches and administrators, as well as club supporters, joined them in a walk down memory lane.
Soccer legends such as Graham Kidd, Robbie Geils, Gavin Laing, Danny Le Roux, Clive Barker, Alan Varner and Bobby Chalmers, among many other well-known former players, were also at the lunch.
Escombe Football Club, which has a strong membership of over 300, including juniors, seniors and a women’s team, has, over the past few years, experienced an ever-increasing rise in the cost of maintaining the grounds and buildings.
The club is one of very few that operate on leased private land, and therefore rely entirely on their members and donors for income, receiving no grants or assistance from the local municipality. It is also the only club with a junior side in the area.
The maintenance includes mowing the field, fencing, painting and the cost of water and electricity.
