coppercanuck Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 http://www.srisports.com/news/field/filled/hamilton_cfl_030604.htm I was watching SportsCentre the other day and saw the Blue Bombers highlights which was played on what looked like FieldTurf. It turns out it was AstroPlay. AstroPlay also has the ability to be FIFA Approved. Canada is getting some soccer playing options with Molson (20k) and Frank Clair (31k) Stadiums going with FieldTurf and Ivor Wynne (35k) and CanadInns (29k) Stadiums going with AstroPlay. Combined with Commonwealth (60k) Stadium in Edmonton with its natural surface makes 5 potential top stadiums to have the national teams play. Come on CSA! Lets get some home games.... aka JTPenney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 quote:Originally posted by coppercanuck http://www.srisports.com/news/field/filled/hamilton_cfl_030604.htm I was watching SportsCentre the other day and saw the Blue Bombers highlights which was played on what looked like FieldTurf. It turns out it was AstroPlay. AstroPlay also has the ability to be FIFA Approved. Canada is getting some soccer playing options with Molson (20k) and Frank Clair (31k) Stadiums going with FieldTurf and Ivor Wynne (35k) and CanadInns (29k) Stadiums going with AstroPlay. Combined with Commonwealth (60k) Stadium in Edmonton with its natural surface makes 5 potential top stadiums to have the national teams play. Come on CSA! Lets get some home games.... aka JTPenney FIFA-approved means we'll be able to play official games on it, but for friendlies to happen, the other team needs to accept to play on the turf, which Holland refused last March in Ottawa. Allez l'Impact! Allez les Rouges! Allons Ultras! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJT Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 quote:Originally posted by coppercanuck I was watching SportsCentre the other day and saw the Blue Bombers highlights which was played on what looked like FieldTurf. It turns out it was AstroPlay. AstroPlay also has the ability to be FIFA Approved. I think that there is a plan to ask FIFA to approve Winnipeg's surface. I seem to recall an article being posted about this a while ago. quote:Originally posted by Daniel FIFA-approved means we'll be able to play official games on it, but for friendlies to happen, the other team needs to accept to play on the turf, which Holland refused last March in Ottawa. From what I recall, for official games artificial surfaces can only be used when no other alternative exists. So an argument such as "we feel like playing in Ottawa" may not work, while "it's -10 in Edmonton so we'd rather play in Ottawa" would be okay. However, I read this quite a while ago so things may have changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Its true that synthetic turf will not make us many friends when it come to playing international friendlies, especially with football lines which will often accompany that surface. However, it will solve some of our problems with regard to soccer venues for A-League/CSL teams. These problems include small seating capacity, no lighting, poor washroom facilities and the like. Now Canadian soccer has to develop the product that will allow clubs to take the step of renting these new soccer-friendly facilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Massive Attack Doesn't one of the bigger Dutch club teams play on Field turf? Ajax has a FT training field. Allez l'Impact! Allez les Rouges! Allons Ultras! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jeffery S. Posted June 14, 2003 Share Posted June 14, 2003 Puerto Montt, the Chilean team where young Albertan Carmelo Rago plays, has the first artificial surface approved to play top flight soccer on in South America. Read this on their site. Would like to know if it is indeed Field Turf. The town is in the south on the coast, likely rainy. Their nickname is the Salmoneros, the Salmon Fishermen. Town of some 130,000. By the way the team won their division and are in the quarter finals of the Apertura (like Argentina, but playoffs). Lost the first leg 2-1 away and play the second at home this Sunday I think it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trueviking Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 the turf at winnipeg stadium has the football lines built right into it. the plastic blades of grass are actually white (or another colour). i am pretty sure that being free of permanent lines was a major requirement for FIFA approval. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jeffery S. Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 I am reposting Massive Attack's post way down that noone responded to. It is worth checking out the images as well. Effectively means that Pozniak is playing regularly on the surface and that our guys in Austria are seeing it. So that is interesting. By the way, M-A, you have a great name, and I like your quotes as well. Very appropriate for this kind of banter. Good show. http://www.uefa.com/uefa/News/Kind=16384/newsId=75245.html Tuesday, 17 June 2003 UEFA is pressing on with its ambitious artificial turf project - and there are increasingly positive reactions from players and coaches about the 'pilot' pitches at three European venues where domestic championship matches are already being played as part of the project. Three venues Matches have already been taking place at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, the new Salzburg stadium in the Austrian city of Salzburg and the Eyravallen stadium in Örebro, Sweden, as UEFA intensifies its research into artificial pitches with a view to their possible use in UEFA competitions in the coming years. Three clubs - FC Torpedo Moskva, SV Austria Salzburg and Örebro SK - have been playing domestic championship matches on artificial playing surfaces. Another two pitches Two other venues - the Atatürk stadium in the Turkish city of Denizli, home of the Denizlispor club, and the De Polman stadium in the Dutch town of Almelo, used by Dutch second-division side Heracles Almelo - will also eventually have artificial pitches under the UEFA pilot project. UEFA subsidy The clubs which play at the venues receive a UEFA subsidy of €195,000. In return, they are being asked to co-operate with UEFA. So far, UEFA has received encouraging comments from coaches and players. Mental adaptation "We have spoken to players and coaches about the pitch in Salzburg, for example, and the feedback we have received is getting better and better," said René Eberle, UEFA's senior manager for competition administration. "The players say that it is primarily a question of mental adaptation to the turf." Grass comparison The research carried out at the five venues is to focus on interactions between the players and the field (biomechanical tests), the safety of the players, and injuries (player-field impact and player-player impact), to enable a comparison to be made with natural grass playing surfaces. Few injuries "The medical staff at Salzburg told us that they have never had so few injuries at this stage of the year. We also asked the doctors at Torpedo Moscow, and they more or less confirmed that fact," said Mr Eberle. Weather benefits The benefits of artificial turf in bad weather have already been proved in Salzburg. "There was a heavy thunderstorm the night before an Austrian Cup semi-final match, and areas of Salzburg was flooded," Mr Eberle explained. "There would have been no chance of playing on a natural grass pitch, but the game went ahead on artificial turf, because of the good drainage system." Player questionnaire The next step in UEFA's artificial turf project will be the distribution of a questionnaire to the players of all visiting teams who play at the venues in Austria, Moscow and Sweden. "The aim is for top players to give us their views on the turf, to enable us to gather as much information as possible," said Mr Eberle. Project target The project target is to have enough feedback and research results available by 2005, to enable a subsequent decision to be taken about the use of artificial pitches in European competitions. FIFA talks In addition, UEFA will hold talks with world football's governing body FIFA in the coming period, in order to find a solution regarding the differing artificial turf standards required by the two bodies. "We hope that we will come to an agreement by the end of this year," said Mr Eberle. Two products passed Meanwhile, UEFA has announced that two artificial turf products have passed the European body's rigid quality criteria test. The two products - the first to successfully meet UEFA's requirements - are Greenfields United, produced by the Greenfields company in Kampen, the Netherlands, and XL Turf EF2003, produced by Symbior Technologies Inc., Montreal, Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bxl Boy Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 The problem is that in Europe, people don't speak about "astroturf" or "fieldturf" or things like that All is in one word "artificial turf" No differences between all kinds of artificial turfs, so they are afraid to play on it as the quality changes radically from one to another And the reference for them is astroturf because that's what's used by field-hockey teams, a quite popular sport in a lot of countries (Germany, England, Netherlands, Belgium) where artificial turf is present everywhere ___________________________ http://www.impactsoccer.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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