{"id":46703,"date":"2017-09-11T20:15:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T00:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=46703"},"modified":"2017-09-11T20:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T00:17:23","slug":"revs-get-new-turf-at-gillette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=46703","title":{"rendered":"Revs Get New Turf at Gillette"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Less than four months after it was replaced, a new artificial surface will be installed at Gillette Stadium while the Revolution embark on back-to-back road matches.<\/p>\n

Installation of the new surface began shortly after the Revolution’s 1-0 win over Montreal on Saturday. The change was made after the previous surface did not meet the organization’s standards, according to reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some reports indicated that some players on the New England Patriots said the former surface was especially soft.<\/p>\n

The Revolution will play their first match on the new surface on Sept. 23 when they host Toronto FC.<\/p>\n

Gillette Stadium, which opened in 2002 with a natural grass surface, switched to artificial turf following the 2006 MLS season.<\/p>\n

According to a 2006 Boston Globe<\/em> report, Revolution owner\/operator Jonathan Kraft said the grass surface was difficult to maintain.<\/a><\/p>\n

“We knew having a very busy, multipurpose stadium, in the Northeast, would make it difficult to keep a natural grass surface in place,” said Kraft at the time. “We spent a lot of time, money, and energy researching a system to do this, and we developed a system under that field, and spent millions of dollars on it.<\/p>\n

“But unfortunately, the amount of sunlight the field gets after August isn’t enough, because the stadium is tall. So the grass doesn’t have a chance to recover after being used aggressively in April straight through January. No matter how good the system is underneath it, no one perfected a way to replace Mother Nature unless you go to an artificial surface. We haven’t wanted to do that historically.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new carpet awaits the Revs when they return from the road. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[891,396,888,892,1343],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gillette-1.png?fit=600%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46703"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46705,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46703\/revisions\/46705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}