Normally, American football is played on artificial or hybrid pitches, which can’t be used for football matches at the World Cup for quality and safety reasons. The challenge for Fifa, therefore, is to offer the highest-quality grass pitches. University of Tennessee and Michigan State University were tasked with perfecting and providing the surface that would be installed and maintained across all 16 venues. According to the Associated Press, two types of surface will be used for the tournament. Bermuda grass for venues in warmer climates in places like New Jersey, Miami and Guadalajara in Mexico, and rye mixed with Kentucky bluegrass for venues in cooler climates or those indoors. Like the ones in Texas, California, Seattle, Toronto and others. “Sixteen stadiums across three countries, half of the stadiums don’t have natural grass in them ever,” Trey Rogers, a professor of turf grass research at Michigan State University, told NPR.

According to the BBC, plastic fibres similar to those used in artificial turf have been attached to the grass to make the pitches more uniform and durable. When the grass roots reach the plastic, they intertwine, which makes transportation and installation easy. Apart from the pitch, some reconstruction has also taken place. The MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, which will host this year’s final, saw around 1,700 seats removed to accommodate for run-up areas for corner kicks. According to David Graham, senior pitch manager of Fifa Tournaments Infrastructure, “close to six or seven years” of research have gone into ensuring that the pitches at all 16 World Cup stadiums are in perfect condition, and added that research was helped by observations from the Qatar World Cup. “Fifa itself, and the pitch management team, is guided by the science to deliver what we need to deliver for match day. So, it’s been quite refreshing and well publicised that this is what we do: we go with the research; it’s what guides our process,” he said. However, it has not been all smooth sailing. A video of the Senegal team training for their friendly against the US at the Bank of America Stadium in North Carolina caused concerns after the Senegalese players were seen struggling to gauge the bounce of the surface

Koji bednik od novinara, "platićete kaznu ako ne pričate s nama!" Marš bre, stoko.

Jedna od retkih situacija gde je Vini u pravu

Nisam citala temu pa ne zamerite. Nije da se ne radujem, ali bas puno zemalja. Evo sad sam pogledala nemacka-kirasao. Ne motivise nikako . Posle holandjani, ajde malo da oboje sliku, makar.

Znam, bice bolje i zanimljivije

Stavili platno preko naziva stadiona jer ne smeju brendovi, i onda levis promenio profile pic

a i platno je u obliku levi-s logoa, fifa već piše tužbu

U ovom prvom kolu ce biti samo jedna jaca utakmica ENG-CRO. Mozda jos eventualno BRA-MAR i FRA-SEN. Ostalo je bas kriticno lose.

Probudite me za mesec dana fazon.

sta je falilo utakmici nizozemska - japan?

6 hours ago, Papovac said:

sta je falilo utakmici nizozemska - japan?

Nije gledao.

Meni je i Škotska - Haiti bila zabavna.

Meni krivo sto nisam gledao Brazil

Izgleda nije gledao ni ovaj lik pored nje.

24 minutes ago, Jimmy Kowalski said:

Meni krivo sto nisam gledao Brazil

Traži čovek telefon 😂