PART 2: Greenwood Park neglected on important issues
Another challenge was that the team had to find an alternate venue for Greenwood Park Friends to host other soccer teams whenever they were meant to play at home.
WORKINGTON Road grounds is home to the Greenwood Park (GWP) Friends soccer team for the past 20 years however, the grounds lack basic facilities such as running water, change rooms and toilets.
The soccer team has maintained the grounds in the past, but were given restrictions from the City so maintenance on their part stopped.
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“Without running water there’s not much maintenance we can do in any case. We also have no change rooms. When the City sent their team over to cut the grass, they cut the sprinkler heads off. We even had to fix the goal posts ourselves,” said Landu McNamara, CEO of Greenwood Park Friends.
The team carries huge quantities of drinking water to practise sessions and has limited spectators as there are no toilet facilities.
“Sport is very much about socialising. We can’t even invite our families to cheer us on. Also, the boundary walls are broken so we can’t restrict access and follow the Covid-19 restrictions pertaining to spectators as anyone can enter the ground through the broken spaces,” said McNamara.
“We don’t have a ground to play on and other venues are booked by PSL teams. All our games are played away,” said McNamara.
The team was recently the champs in the ABC Motsepe League Stream B.
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