40 years of the BESJ Unihockey Club Schaffhausen
I was astonished when an invitation recently came to my house:
Dear Peter, the BESJ Unihockey Club Schaffhausen, which you founded, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. You are cordially invited to the celebration. Please bring a floorball stick and gymnastics equipment...
A lot of things come to mind:
Wow, yes that was a great time.
Am I old enough to have founded a floorball club 40 years ago?
Will I even hit a ball anymore?
I'm looking forward to the celebration and hope to meet many old and new friends.
The party was well organized by my nephews, my niece and their friends. There was an interview with the founder (me ;-)). My nephew Nicola asked the questions. Afterwards, of course, there was a lot of playing. And yes, I also hit one or two balls ;-).
All coaches who have coached the club over the 40 years then had to face intense competition. Well, at least I came second behind the current trainer, my niece Angela. But only because I had great team members who I was able to motivate to achieve top performance with my coaching.
It's great to see that many young people are still involved as trainers today, that the kids have fun and can learn important things for life through sport. A big thank you to my sister Gisela, her husband Edi and their kids Angela, Marco and Nicola, who have floorball in their blood and continued to run the club with a lot of enthusiasm after I left. Thanks also to all the other coaches and the trainer who continued to run the club after I resigned. Floorball is probably still a fringe sport, but it has developed enormously in recent years. The sport is now called “floorball” and there are now games that are broadcast on television.
A big thank you also to my wife Ursula, who documented the event with the camera.
