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Synthetic is Fantastic: DLSZ-Globe Football Field Opens in Alabang
By Bob Guerrero | The Passionate Fan – Sat, Jan 26, 2013 2:15 AM PHT
It's “nature-identical” not “artificial” according to De La Salle Santiago Zobel President Bro. Dennis Magbanua.
That's how he describes the gorgeous new Football pitch which now sits behind his school.
Completed in just six weeks, it joins Turf BGC, International School Manila's Field, King's School in MOA and McKinley Hill Football Field in the growing list of artificial grass Football facilities in Metro Manila.
The field will be the home for the school's teams, as well as the primary training ground for Green Archers United Globe of the UFL.
Unlike Turf BGC, whose turf is from Italian supplier Limonta, the DLSZ-Globe pitch is made by Team Sports of Australia and installed by Advantage Sports + Leisure, which has been putting up synthetic grass Tennis courts and lawns in the Philippines for the last 16 years.
Teamsports, a 25-year veteran of the business, has laid in over fifty fields in Australia and another fifty in Taiwan and Korea. This is their first field in the Philippines.
Jeremy Rollin, General Manager of Advantage, says that the field will accrue savings of about P200,000 a month for the school, since there is no need to water, fertilize, nor mow the field.
“Plus they can rent it out more often since it's an artificial surface” he adds.
Rollin says the field measures 65 meters wide and 92 meters long but Hans Smit, DLSU coach and Green Archers United Globe Technical Director, says it's a wee bit narrower. Most FIFA pitches for International play are bigger, usually 68 meters by 105 meters.
ph.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/thepassionatefan/synthetic-fantastic-dlsz-globe-football-field-opens-alabang-181558892.html
By Bob Guerrero | The Passionate Fan – Sat, Jan 26, 2013 2:15 AM PHT
It's “nature-identical” not “artificial” according to De La Salle Santiago Zobel President Bro. Dennis Magbanua.
That's how he describes the gorgeous new Football pitch which now sits behind his school.
Completed in just six weeks, it joins Turf BGC, International School Manila's Field, King's School in MOA and McKinley Hill Football Field in the growing list of artificial grass Football facilities in Metro Manila.
The field will be the home for the school's teams, as well as the primary training ground for Green Archers United Globe of the UFL.
Unlike Turf BGC, whose turf is from Italian supplier Limonta, the DLSZ-Globe pitch is made by Team Sports of Australia and installed by Advantage Sports + Leisure, which has been putting up synthetic grass Tennis courts and lawns in the Philippines for the last 16 years.
Teamsports, a 25-year veteran of the business, has laid in over fifty fields in Australia and another fifty in Taiwan and Korea. This is their first field in the Philippines.
Jeremy Rollin, General Manager of Advantage, says that the field will accrue savings of about P200,000 a month for the school, since there is no need to water, fertilize, nor mow the field.
“Plus they can rent it out more often since it's an artificial surface” he adds.
Rollin says the field measures 65 meters wide and 92 meters long but Hans Smit, DLSU coach and Green Archers United Globe Technical Director, says it's a wee bit narrower. Most FIFA pitches for International play are bigger, usually 68 meters by 105 meters.
ph.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/thepassionatefan/synthetic-fantastic-dlsz-globe-football-field-opens-alabang-181558892.html