The president of Fluminense, Mario Bittencourt, gave a press conference this Tuesday, January 30th. The tricolor president did like his friend Leila Pereira (whom he, in fact, praised) and spent almost two hours answering all the questions in a very honest and open way. I will highlight here what Bittencourt said about synthetic grass, a statement that, in my view, is absolutely right.
He started by evaluating the effect of grass on the game: “player gets slower, ball gets faster”, he said. We know this, of course, but Bittencourt went on to explain that the dynamics of the game change a lot, that players have difficulty adapting, that what appears on TV to be a crude shot at the goal that ends up on the flag is often It’s the synthetic grass’s fault because it traps the player’s foot and he, in turn, loses time with the ball.
Then he touched on another sensitive point: for fear of injury, he said, many clubs spare their players on synthetic pitches, which obviously favors the owner of the field. Just to illustrate: if a club that plays on synthetic grass goes to face Inter Miami, it will face a team without Messi because Messi doesn’t play on synthetic grass.
2024-01-30 23:08:09
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