Fisht Stadium manager Veniamin Bogomolov spoke about the peculiarities of the Sochi stadium pitch this summer and said the club is in constant contact with the Russian Football Union (RFU) and the Russian Premier League (RPL). regarding the quality of the lawn.
Earlier on Monday, the MIR RPL press service announced that they would make a decision on whether to hold the 8th round match.Sochi “—”Spartacus after the league committee’s visit to Fisht Stadium on September 5-6. As stated in the RPL, “due to abnormally high daytime and evening temperatures in Sochi in August, the quality characteristics of the Fisht Stadium pitch deteriorated.”
Sochi on August 30 will play with CSKA at home in the match of the 3rd round of the group stage of the RPL FONBET Path of the Russian Cup.
– At the beginning of 2017, attention was paid to the quality of the lawn and the way it was laid out in principle. I hope we can change the prevailing stereotype that there can be no difficulties in the fields in the summer in Russia. Sochi has a subtropical and humid climate. Temperatures are reached during the day up to 35-40 degrees, in the evening and at night they do not drop below 28 degrees. More high humidity. Many people compare us to Krasnodar, but the city is located in a temperate continental climate. It is a significant difference. It turns out that the lawn heats up to 30 degrees by 15 cm with direct rays, such humidity gives the effect of organic growth, which is catastrophic for the grass. The grass begins to die, fertilizers and agrochemicals are not perceived, since the recommended temperature is 22-25 degrees. On an ongoing basis, we carry out analyzes by climatic zones.
We are working with companies on technologies that would allow us to cool the ground. We are constantly in contact with the RPL and the RFU, everyone knows the current situation at the moment. As for the next match against CSKA, there are no miracles, but we are doing everything to ensure that the pitch meets all the requirements, and it does. It’s not as watchable as I would like, but it meets all the technical specifications. We must not forget that this is the same organism as the human organism,” Bogomolov told the PRIME Match program “8-16”.
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Source : MatchTV
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