Acatari

The town is predominately ethnic Hungarian. We met with the mayor, showed up for the first evening of there summer festival, allowed kids to pitch into our target and hit into a net. We stayed for a few hours, threw down some bases and played some sand lot ball. The following Monday morning we had 9 or 10 boys show up for first practice. We had 15 at the last one and are getting to know the boys. We are short on Hungarian speaking coaches so we offered to let an older boy who plays with us to be there coach, with staff oversight and help. He is from that town and should be able to grow into a coaching position and bring his hometown boys along with some good baseball training and some fun. Zoli is 18, is a strong young man, with a pitchers height and our fastest thrower.  He will continue to train as a coach and intends to play at the over 18 year level.

Acatari has one of the new sport halls that have been built with EU grants. They had everything completed and ready before the festival…except the football field behind the facility. We hope they will have that ready for play in 2011. At least they can hold some winter training sessions indoors using rubber balls. Until then we will train them on a grassy area on one end of the hall. The area for the future soccer field is now unsafe due to construction material, stones, metal scrap and an uneven dirt surface.
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