BFF to get artificial turf by November

The installation of artificial turf in the BFF compound at Motijheel under FIFA Goal Project-2 will be completed in November with the laying process starting from mid-August. Italian firm Limonta will provide Tango turf and Bangkok-based Seara Sports Systems will lay it.
Davide Bertoli, the export manager of Limonta, Jan van Paridon and Patrick Dean of Seara and the Bangladesh Football Federation officials sat at the BFF House on Thursday to finalise the installation procedures. BFF president Kazi Salahuddin, general secretary Al Misabbir Sadi and Asrfaul Islam, architect of Bashatikalpa, the local agents of Seara SS, were present at the meeting.
Limonta and Seara have been working as FIFA licensee firms for the last twenty years and have worked jointly in China, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. They are currently working in Nigeria. They are also the official partners of Italian giants AC Milan and have installed the training turfs in the club’s football academy. The joint-venture company has a good experience of working in the Asian conditions.
‘Normally it takes nine weeks to complete the installation procedure but the weather has to be warm and dry. In the Asian countries it takes more time because of rain. The turf will provide the national side and the age-level teams continuous training facilities throughout the year,’ said Bertoli.
The turf will be the latest design of its kind and will be made of 100% polyethylene with a thickness of 60 millimtres. Limonta will provide a warranty of seven years for the turf.
The cost of the project is $4.84 lakh (Tk 3.35 crore) and FIFA will provide the entire money from its development fund. The artificial pitch will also have floodlights.

Courtesy of NewAgebd