The World Cup’s first whistle will sound June 11 at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, kicking off a summer-long spectacle that will stretch across three countries and draw a global audience.
For the grass they’ll play on, it all started years earlier in North Carolina. Or Colorado. Or Canada. Or whichever sod farm had been ***** igned to grow a particular, essential piece of the tournament.
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Across North America, FIFA’s pitch experts have spent years trying to make 16 new fields in three countries feel like one playing surface - indoors and out, in heat and shade, at sea level and altitude, inside stadiums that were not always built with grass in mind.
For the grass they’ll play on, it all started years earlier in North Carolina. Or Colorado. Or Canada. Or whichever sod farm had been ***** igned to grow a particular, essential piece of the tournament.
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Across North America, FIFA’s pitch experts have spent years trying to make 16 new fields in three countries feel like one playing surface - indoors and out, in heat and shade, at sea level and altitude, inside stadiums that were not always built with grass in mind.
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