THE ARGENTINE SELECTION will have its second match in the Copa América this Tuesday when facing Chile at MetLife Stadiumin the suburbs of New Jersey. It’s about a multipurpose stage in which many recitals are performed and in which the only sport that takes place is American football. Both the Giants and the Jets are local there.
The NFL Giants and Jets, home at MetLife Stadium.
With capacity for 82,000 spectators, its usual surface is synthetic grass. But It was replaced by natural grass for the development of the Copa América. Therefore, it became a concern for the Argentine delegation already established in the city to wait for the commitment to La Roja: They don’t want the same thing to happen as in the debut at the Mercedes Benz Stadium.
After the match with Canada in atlanta the complaints were many by the protagonists: Lionel Scaloni, Emiliano Martínez and Cuti Romero were the most severe with the state of the playing field, on which patches of grass had been installed just four days before.
The Argentine National Team has already trained in New Jersey.
At MetLife the situation does not seem to be so serious, although it is noted that there are unevenness and from above you can see patches. At this point it seems clear that The conditions will not be optimal, but they will be better than those of the debut in Atlanta.
Another aspect that is assured is that tickets will be sold out long before that what happened in the debut and that also There will be a huge number of Argentine fans whose presence is already very noticeable in New Jersey.
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