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Astro Turf Concerns?

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So the bulls are going bowling (at least as far as I'm concerned) and I'm betting it's to Birmingham...  

About Legion Field...

In 2006, to accommodate high school football games, the Birmingam Park and Recreation Board reconverted the grass surface back to artificial turf. Design specifications called for a FIFA 2-Star RECOMMENDED synthetic turf field, the highest FIFA rating an artificial turf installation can attain, in hopes of continuing to serve as host for international soccer matches. According to the FIFA website, "The FIFA RECOMMENDED 2-Star for artificial turf is designed specifically to mirror the playing characteristics of professional football. FIFA final round competitions and top UEFA competitions have the FIFA RECOMMENDED 2 Star in their respective competition regulations." FieldTurf was awarded the project based on their proposal to deliver a FIFA 2-Star RECOMMENDED field. As of October 30th, 2006, almost six months after the installation was completed, the field has yet to attain FIFA 2-Star RECOMMENDED status. The current list of FIFA RECOMMENDED 2-Star fields is available at the FIFA website (http://www.fifa.com/en/development/pitchsection/0,1350,9,00.html). The move to reconvert back to synthetic turf has been controversial, and as a result, the US Soccer Federation has not been as supportive. In April of 2006, Birmingham was awarded a Women's World Cup warm up match on the condition that the natural surface would remain until the game was played. The City of Birmingham refused to delay the installation and, for all practical purposes, forfeited their good standing with US Soccer. US Soccer had regularly visited Legion Field since the successful 1996 Olympic games.

How often have we played on AstroTurf?   Is this something to be worried about?

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Well, there wasn't much trouble playing 'Cuse in the dome last year...

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and we do have an indoor astroturf pitch to have a few training sessions on....tropicana

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With our speed, i would actually think Astroturf would help... but I'm more worried about the injuries.

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Well, there wasn't much trouble playing 'Cuse in the dome last year...

Is it Astroturf or field turf?

If I'm not mistaken, 'Cuse switched their playing surface to field turf.

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It's field turf. Wildly different (and safer) than Astroturf.

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It's also slower than Astroturf.

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whoops, so I guess Astro Turf and Field Turf aren't the same... sorry... any concerns about Field Turf?

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No...some players prefer field turf to regular grass...but we had a practice at the Trop before Syracuse last year...LVille also has field turf

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