Thursday, June 16, 2016

Oak tree sits in middle of soccer pitch, what would Ronaldinho do? (Reuters)

Children attend a training session in a soccer pitch, which has an oak tree right in the middle, in Orissaare, Estonia, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

While soccer greats show off their skills in France for UEFA Euro 2016, children at a soccer camp in the Baltic state of Estonia learn how to use an oak tree which sits in the middle of their pitch, to gain an advantage. The more than 150 year-old oak tree has kept center stage since the park was made into a sports ground in the late 1940s, in the coastal town of Orissaare on the Island of Saaremaa. It dominates one half of the pitch.


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