frog invasion

Here's quite a strange video:
20 Minuten Online Videoportal - Frosch-Invasion beim Fussball
20 Minuten - Spielabbruch wegen Frosch-Invasion - Fussball

You can read it in English from The Local website:

Photo: FC Embrach

Frog invasion forces halt to Zurich football game

Published: 20 Apr 2015 22:34 GMT+02:00

   

A referee was forced to stop an amateur football match between two senior clubs in Zurich after thousands of frogs invaded the field, according to media reports on Monday.

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After 41 minutes of play between the Embrach and Räterschen teams the game on Friday night was abandoned with the score at 2-2 after the amphibians took over the pitch.

 At first just a few frogs were spotted on the sidelines but after a few minutes the pitch was “swarming with thousands of frogs”, FC Embrach said on its website.

The football club is used to seeing a few frogs in the grass but never in these kinds of numbers.

"It has occurred on and off,” the football club’s s vice president Sandro Caviola told the 20 Minuten newspaper.

“But something like Friday we have never experienced before.”

 The frog invasion followed heavy rains in the area last week.

“The frogs were travelling to the forest — unfortunately, our (field) is on the way there,” Caviola said.

The two teams are hoping the frogs will have moved on by May 11th when they are set to replay the match.

Frog invasion forces halt to Zurich football game - The Local

The Guardian took up the story:
Croak Park: frog invasion causes match in Switzerland to be abandoned | Football | The Guardian

And here is the website of the football club from 18th April:
FC Embrach - Willkommen auf der Website des FC Embrach
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