Last Saturday the art-/soccer-event Polder Cup was held in the ‘polders’ of Ottoland, near Rotterdam. Ottoland was an open event conceived by Spanish artist Maider Lopez, on invitation of Witte de With and SKOR.

Polder Cup was a soccer tournament in the middle of the polders of Ottoland, which meant that the (bumpy) field was crossed by trenches with water that the players were not allowed to cross. This made the game a little more unpredictable than usual.

It was a nice day, reminiscing of high school sporting day events and village-parties…

Entrance to the fields.

The wonderful Ottoland landscape.

Maider Lopez, on top of things.

The team ‘Handen en voeten (Hands and feet)’, with a.o. Willem Besselink, Arik Visser, Daniel Dennis de Wit and Guus Vreeburg.

Nils van Beek of SKOR wore his high school sporting day t-shirt especially for the occasion.

Ballcatcher Joram.

The marching band and Daniel and beer.

UPDATE:

Smoking a cigar while goalkeeping.

Sikay and William checking out other activities: canoeing (or kayaking?) …

and the traditional dutch sport of fierljeppen.

Tension before the final: lightblue vs darkblue.

Lightblue wins from darkblue after penalties and celebrates by diving into the muddy ditch.

The crowd is happy. Maider Lopez gets carried away.

Bonus: a blue tree.

Related:

Maider López Anca Benera Goshka Macuga’s ‘(On) The nature of the Beast’ Oskar Dawicki