Fields Now A Shopping Centre
Personal memory by Vincent Tong
1994 • The Netherlands
I remember the fields in which we played in Hilversumse Meent, a small neighbourhood in Holland, when I was younger. I didn't know anyone because we had just moved from Hong Kong, but we all got to know each other by playing football after school, rain or shine. The last time I went back, these grounds had been taken over by a local shopping centre, and no more football grounds were to be seen. A real shame.
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