FAKE ARTIFICIAL TURF CRITISISED

Injury concerns by World Cup soccer players on artificial turf.

The reasoning was simple. Performing a diving header on a grass field is one thing; doing it on artificial turf — which, for the first time, will be used for every field at next year’s women’s championship — is something else altogether.

That is why Wambach and a host of other top players — including Alex Morgan and Heather O’Reilly of the United States, and Nadine Angerer of Germany, the 2013 player of the year — have been protesting the plan to use artificial turf at the World Cup since it was announced. Recently they took their protest up a notch, threatening legal action if the tournament isn’t played on grass.

Last year, Wambach and other players signed a petition urging FIFA and Canada’s soccer association to use grass fields at the tournament. Nearly 4,000 people added their support by signing, too, including more than 50 national-team players from 12 countries.

Nothing changed.

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