Maximiliano Benozzi
08/04/2020 - 17:56
- Clarín.com
- sports
River reported on Tuesday afternoon a historic change in the Monumental. On the one hand, it will remodel the apartment with first-class technology and it will not be used until the beginning of 2021, so if football returns before the end of the year, as Clarín anticipated , Marcelo Gallardo's team will play the premises on the premises. Ezeiza, Real Madrid style, who played the final matches of the Spanish League at the Ciudad Deportiva de Valdebebas. In addition, there will be no more the historic athletics track, emblem of the stadium.
"For the local tournament we are going to use the Ezeiza property, for sure," a senior leader of the Millionaire institution confirmed to this newspaper. And in international meetings? There it depends on whether Conmebol authorizes or not. "It is not impossible, we will try to let us play," said this same manager. The drawback for the South American entity has to do with television broadcasts. River will have to build a cabin structure in record time, enhance connectivity and diagram the cable routing. We'll see.
Thus, it is not unreasonable that before San Pablo and Liga de Quito (the two games that remain for him at home in the group stage) River moves his home to the property that is next to the Ezeiza-Cañuleas highway. You must also have the permits of the provincial government and the municipality of Ezeiza, as well as APreViDe. There would be no drawbacks. Of course: if Conmebol does not authorize, it will have to rent a stadium.
As a novelty, the arrangement of the Monumental will bring goodbye to the running track. An icon of River's Olympic laps, either with the players stepping on it or on board a convertible micro. It is that to carry out this work of great magnitude the playing field will be lowered until reaching the optimum level defined by the geotechnical study carried out in recent weeks. In addition , a new single tunnel will be built through which both the local team and the visitor will enter the field of play. These transformations will allow in the future to advance with stands closer to the playing field.
"The work is part of the planned annual plan for spare parts, which are financed with the club's current income, and will be canceled during the next twelve months. As for the terms, it will be completed in early 2021," they announced from the leadership.
What will the reforms be like?
According to the official information provided by River, the Monumental playing field will have installed a state- of-the-art hybrid lawn and a ventilation system at the level of the best stadiums in the world.
In turn, the natural grass system reinforced with fiber injection technology will allow more hours of use than a traditional court. Aeration technology will help root development and lead to the growth of a healthier, stronger grass with better game quality and lower maintenance costs.
With these technologies, for example, the field of the Luzhniki Stadium of the 2018 World Cup could be kept in optimal conditions during the five weeks of intensive use of the World Cup (in which the same number of hours as a playing field was used over a year in the English Premier League).
Fernando Cavenaghi, on the Monumental track. (Maxi Failla)
This aeration technology will also allow you to proactively manage the moisture content on the surface and remove excess water in seconds, which will reduce the risk of damage from bad weather conditions. It will also increase ventilation of the root zone, providing essential levels for healthy growth and mitigating potential problems.
With the aeration system, it will be possible to have an optimal temperature in the root zone during the winter and summer months with its heating and cooling functions, which will prevent seasonal deterioration of the playing field and will be able to stay in optimal conditions and be sustainable throughout the year. This will avoid the problems generated by the transitions of species that were made until now. And neither will the problems currently suffering from water absorption stormy days.
This new system is similar to the one implemented in the stadiums of Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United , among many other great clubs in the world. Thus, River is modernized and also shows its greatness through the grass of the Monumental. That green grass trodden by so many great players and in which the Argentina National Team won its first world title in 1978. That said: the athletics track will no longer be on the Olympic lap.
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