Brown grass and holes: The football field of SV Afritz in Carinthia was badly damaged shortly before the start of the championship. As if that wasn’t enough, burrowing animals also raged there.
Shortly before the start of the football championship, the animal specter started on the sports field in Afritz: at first masses of cockchafers and cockchafers had feasted on the soft roots of the grass. The fat larvae immediately attracted more uninvited guests: “Crows came and took the maggots out of the ground. But two badgers have done even greater damage,” said Artur Friedrich Kahlhofer, president of SV Afritz. “When we got on the field in the morning, it was always badly battered. At first we didn’t know why.”
Residents observed badgers
An observant resident finally gave the decisive clue: one day he saw how the badgers were raging in the square. With the help of a badger specialist and his dogs, the sports club finally managed to chase the animals away.
However, some parts of the lawn could not be saved. “We were lucky that we had a lot of away games and breaks, during this time we were able to prepare the field again. It was nice that the team and the officials picked things up together and made the course suitable for the championship,” praises Kahlhofer. material costs were about $4000. “We had support from the community and from the state sports department,” said treasurer Kurt Pucher.
Source: Krone
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