The Dhaka Times Desk Floating home, floating hospital, floating school, floating airport - after many things, now a floating football field has been established in Thailand!
According to online media, Koh Peni is a small village on the southern coast of Thailand. The whole village is an island. District village of Phang Nga State. Everyone in the village is fishing. 360 families live in the island village. People in the 17th century. There is also a school in the village. The people of this village have made a floating football field. And the dreams of the villagers around that field are sky high.
People in Thailand are already football crazy. Football is the meditation of many of them. The club also talks a lot about football. Dress in the colors of the club. And if the World Cup is football, then there is no question. Thai people even forget to eat and drink. The incident began in 1986. The football world cup was going on. The legendary Maradona is walking around the field. School boys in Koh Peni Gaon stay awake at night watching World Cup football and dreaming. Ah, when they can play such football! They have the ball and the players. However, their biggest obstacle to playing football is that they do not have a playground anywhere.
hill village There is no field anywhere. Football can be played in a small place, if you kick a little hard, it goes into the sea, or into the mountain gorge. That's not how football works. That is why it is not possible to keep the football in the room and spend the day chatting and playing. Villagers find a way. And that way is that they will make an artificial football field on the sea. A football field!
Sea around, mountains and forest in between. There is no equal place. So their hope is the same surface as the sea. Everyone got down to work. Before going to school and on the way to school, the collection of materials to make the floating field started. Forest wood, old planks, old boats and fishing nets. After the school holidays, the football field started to be built with these. When they were making it big by hammering nails, joining small planks, no one thought that a small venture would become a huge field. The village elders couldn't believe it at first. Little by little, when their work was progressing, the elders came forward one by one. He shook hands with the children.
The field is ready. Not the field, but Koh Peni Gaon's own stadium. The village boys started practicing there. He started playing football with his heart. Anyone else would have stopped here. The boys of Koh Peni didn't stop. They built a football club by relying on that floating field. The club was named 'Penny FC', a football club based on a floating field. It can be thought! Not only that, 'Penny FC' is the most successful team in Thailand's junior league.
Who first saw the dream of building a floating football field, maybe they don't remember today. I remember, when the floating field was made, everyone in the village became lonely. They worked hand in hand together. A short movie has also been made about the story of their making this field. Even the tsunami of 2004 could not float this floating field. Thailand has not achieved much in international football. There is a greater achievement than that - love for football. This achievement shook the world.
That short film
The people of this village have proved that many things can be achieved by working together. Not just the football field - if you do something together, no matter how impossible it is, Thailand's 'Penny FC' club and their floating football field are a shining proof of that. Source: Daily Yugantar Online.
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