South Africa 2010, World first artificial turf

Technology advances to countries and bounds, and with it we see different implementations, as expected, would not escape the world of sport.

While in many countries and is being implemented, the novelty is that the 2010 World Cup will be the first to use a synthetic turf field, but will have a different composition than usual.

The company responsible for distribution of this new field, which may not be entirely artificial but will have an exact balance between natural and synthetic turf, will Desso Sports System, which has extensive experience in the subject and has developed a series of scientific basis for implementation.

The 20 million fibers are intertwined to natural grass stadiums the seat Mbombela Nelspruit, Peter Mokaba and Polokwane headquarters.

The games to be played on this lawn are:

June 13

• Group C: Algeria - Slovenia

June 16

• Group H: Honduras - Chile

June 17

• Group A: France - Mexico

June 20

• Group F: Italy - New Zealand

June 22

• Group B: Greece - Argentina

June 23

• Group D: Australia - Serbia

June 24

• Group F: Paraguay - New Zealand

June 25

• Group G: North Korea - Ivory Coast