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DLSU Installs Artificial Football Pitch on Laguna Campus
The province of Laguna gets its second turf football field, this one on the DLSU Science and Technology Complex near Santa Rosa.
Bob Guerrero
Published 2:44 PM, February 19, 2016
Updated 2:04 PM, February 20, 2016
MANILA, Philippines - Yup, they are starting to pop up everywhere.
Yet another artificial football field has emerged near greater Manila. Tucked away in the corner of the 51-hectare De La Salle University Science and Technology Complex in Santa Rosa, the new pitch will add to the growing list of synthetic football venues in the country.
“We hope these two projects, (they are also making another grass pitch), are seen as La Salle's small contribution to the development of Philippine football and athletics,” says DLSU's Associate Vice-Chancellor for Campus Development, Jay Calleja.
The facility is the second artificial football pitch in Laguna after the one set up by the local government unit in Biñan.
De La Salle's Santa Rosa field is surrounded by an IAAF-standard track. There is 3 meters of room between the track and the lines of the field, and the field proper is 100m long by 64m wide. That is considered to be the minimum size for international play, and, to my knowledge, the same size as the Chelsea/Gatorade Blue Pitch in The Circuit.
FIFA's preferred size is 68m by 105m, but this field size is adequate for most uses. The good part is that there is a very large buffer zone between the edges of the field and the track, which makes it safer. A player jostling for the ball near the edge of the field would likely fall on grass and not on the track if he was nudged off the park.
A typical 105m by 68m field inside a track, like the one in Rizal Memorial, has its corners intruding slightly into the track. A nice compromise would have been 66m by 102m, as in Biñan, but that would have eaten into the buffer between the track and the pitch.
The grass itself is Pro-Turf TBF-35005 PE Monofilament "Thiolon" yarn. Raffy Reloza, the school principal, says it is from China. In fact, some of the workers supervising the installation are Chinese. The blades of grass are 50 mm long, a wee bit shorter than the 60mm blades in McKinley Hill and Rizal. Biñan's plastic grass is also 50 mm.
The contractor is Firmbuilders, who specializes in other sports surfaces, like basketball floors and athletic tracks. It is believed this is their first synthetic grass field in the country.
The pitch already has infill granules in it, and it feels quite good underfoot. Maybe not as cushy as Rizal Memorial, which has a plastic “shockdrain” underneath, but quite comparable to the McKinley Hill and Turf BGC surfaces. Most certainly its better than the rather firm turf in the FEU Diliman and DLS- Zobel fields. This one is also clearly softer than the Blue Pitch.
There are no immediate plans to have it tested for a FIFA “1 Star” or “2 Star” rating. One Star pitches are recommended for recreational play and suitable for the qualification rounds for major, elite tournaments. FIFA prefers that the final stage of a big tournament is played on a Two Star pitch, like Rizal Memorial.
Like the FEU facility, there are alternating bands of light and dark green on the pitch that sort of simulate the grain of real grass when its mowed one way along a certain stretch and then the other way right beside it. It's a nice touch, and will likely be appreciated by assistant referees who could use the stripes as a visual aid to help them judge offside calls.
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The province of Laguna gets its second turf football field, this one on the DLSU Science and Technology Complex near Santa Rosa.
Bob Guerrero
Published 2:44 PM, February 19, 2016
Updated 2:04 PM, February 20, 2016
MANILA, Philippines - Yup, they are starting to pop up everywhere.
Yet another artificial football field has emerged near greater Manila. Tucked away in the corner of the 51-hectare De La Salle University Science and Technology Complex in Santa Rosa, the new pitch will add to the growing list of synthetic football venues in the country.
“We hope these two projects, (they are also making another grass pitch), are seen as La Salle's small contribution to the development of Philippine football and athletics,” says DLSU's Associate Vice-Chancellor for Campus Development, Jay Calleja.
The facility is the second artificial football pitch in Laguna after the one set up by the local government unit in Biñan.
De La Salle's Santa Rosa field is surrounded by an IAAF-standard track. There is 3 meters of room between the track and the lines of the field, and the field proper is 100m long by 64m wide. That is considered to be the minimum size for international play, and, to my knowledge, the same size as the Chelsea/Gatorade Blue Pitch in The Circuit.
FIFA's preferred size is 68m by 105m, but this field size is adequate for most uses. The good part is that there is a very large buffer zone between the edges of the field and the track, which makes it safer. A player jostling for the ball near the edge of the field would likely fall on grass and not on the track if he was nudged off the park.
A typical 105m by 68m field inside a track, like the one in Rizal Memorial, has its corners intruding slightly into the track. A nice compromise would have been 66m by 102m, as in Biñan, but that would have eaten into the buffer between the track and the pitch.
The grass itself is Pro-Turf TBF-35005 PE Monofilament "Thiolon" yarn. Raffy Reloza, the school principal, says it is from China. In fact, some of the workers supervising the installation are Chinese. The blades of grass are 50 mm long, a wee bit shorter than the 60mm blades in McKinley Hill and Rizal. Biñan's plastic grass is also 50 mm.
The contractor is Firmbuilders, who specializes in other sports surfaces, like basketball floors and athletic tracks. It is believed this is their first synthetic grass field in the country.
The pitch already has infill granules in it, and it feels quite good underfoot. Maybe not as cushy as Rizal Memorial, which has a plastic “shockdrain” underneath, but quite comparable to the McKinley Hill and Turf BGC surfaces. Most certainly its better than the rather firm turf in the FEU Diliman and DLS- Zobel fields. This one is also clearly softer than the Blue Pitch.
There are no immediate plans to have it tested for a FIFA “1 Star” or “2 Star” rating. One Star pitches are recommended for recreational play and suitable for the qualification rounds for major, elite tournaments. FIFA prefers that the final stage of a big tournament is played on a Two Star pitch, like Rizal Memorial.
Like the FEU facility, there are alternating bands of light and dark green on the pitch that sort of simulate the grain of real grass when its mowed one way along a certain stretch and then the other way right beside it. It's a nice touch, and will likely be appreciated by assistant referees who could use the stripes as a visual aid to help them judge offside calls.
(Article intentionally cut, to read more go to: www.rappler.com/sports/by-sport/football/123021-dlsu-artificial-football-pitch-laguna)