THE SPORT SCAN – USAP unveiled its new hybrid pitch at the Aimé-Giral stadium on Saturday against Clermont, and called on the Bishop of the Pyrénées-Orientales, Monsignor Thierry Scherrer, to bless it.
Funny scene Saturday before the Perpignan-Clermont match in Top 14. The Catalan club called on the bishop of the Pyrénées-Orientales, Monsignor Thierry Scherrer, to bless its brand new hybrid lawn, inaugurated at the Aimé-Giral stadium after four months of works and more than two million euros spent. A way to bring luck to USAP players.
“You should know that the lawn had not been changed since 1939. It will be baptized this Saturday at 1 p.m. by the bishop of the Pyrénées-Orientales,” club president François Rivière announced this Friday on France Bleu Roussillon. And because the Aimé-Giral stadium is a “republican place”all religious ceremonies were invited.
The land is no longer sloping
The new hybrid lawn is a mixture of natural grass and synthetic fibers anchored in the ground, with several tens of thousands of kilometers of threads. Everything is supposed to strengthen the resistance of the pitch to bad weather and to players’ trampling. Above all, she is now at the right level. “There was in fact a difference of 80 cm in level between the two in-goals. We had to plan and compensate”explained François Rivière to our colleagues from Le Parisien.
To get their bearings on this new surface, Frank Azéma’s men carried out several training sessions at the Aimé-Giral stadium in the days preceding the match. They will have to adapt to some changes, notably the shortening of the goal behind the posts and the enlargement of the field in width.
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