For the first time in its 33 years, Colo Colo completely removed the grass from the field of the Monumental Stadium and in 2023 it will play on a new grass
A historic announcement. Colo Colo reported that For the first time in its 33 years, the grass of the Monumental Stadium will be changed ‘David Arellano’, inaugurated on September 30, 1989.
Through a statement, the Alba store revealed that the work began “with the removal of all existing natural grass on the court with the COMBINATOR machine. The plant material and a layer of soil approximately 2 cm thick have already been extracted.
The ‘Cacique’ explained that later “the soil will be prepared, using equipment called BLECavator, with which we will proceed to break a layer of approximately 10 cm of soil in order to loosen and loosen the surface”.
Work on the David Arellano court is advancing rapidly. This is how it looks during the beginning of the work that will materialize the new grass of the championship, after 33 years. ???????? ???????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????́ ???????? ???????? ???????????? ???????? ????????. pic.twitter.com/06bGYTXjDF
— Colo-Colo (@ColoColo) November 17, 2022
After this work, added to the corresponding leveling, the work on the Pedrero pitch will aim to build a “herringbone type” drainage system with trenches separated by 10 meters each.
With the final leveling, then “the grass will be installed from a nursery located in the Metropolitan Region, whose chosen format is the Big Rollwhich consists of jumbo rolls up to 22 m long by 0.8 m wide”.
In this way, the field of the Monumental will have an important change and a clear improvement for the next challenges that will have the cast directed by Gustavo Quinteros, where the Copa Libertadores 2023 stands out.
The grass change process began last Monday and it is expected that be finished at the beginning of february.
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This is how the Monumental looks like after the start of the works that will materialize the long-awaited change of the grass of the David Arellano court after more than three decades.
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— Colo-Colo (@ColoColo) November 17, 2022