John Sorochan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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If it was a crappy field, they're going to talk about it.
And if it was bare and the ball was bouncing wrong or a player's going to stop and he blows out a big piece of grass or he slips and falls, that's not good.
We don't want to compromise the outcome of the game because of the surface that they're playing on.
We want those players to have the perfect canvas that they can have to orchestrate their game and demonstrate their abilities at the highest level.
Yeah, absolutely.
What we focus for our safety guidelines is consistency and uniformity.
Not too hard and not too soft.
Not giving you way too much traction and not being aware that they're going to slip and fall also.
Because there's three components when it comes to the player safety.
There's the player, there's the surface, and then there's the footwear.
And if you watch F1, they've got hard, medium, and soft tires for the F1 car that they race on, depending on the conditions of the track.
And then if it's raining, they put on slicks.
If you think of a World Cup soccer player as an F1 car, depending on the surface, because we have warm season grasses and cool season grasses, because in Miami, they're going to grow warm season grass.
In Boston, they got a cool season grass.
Well, you probably want different tires or treads or cleats on those surfaces.
So you get the same performance on those two surfaces.
Yeah, and we want to provide evidence-based data.
We developed a machine at the University of Tennessee that actually simulates a foot strike, and we can get a heat map of a soccer field going up and down it, and it tells us the
forces that the athlete's feeling vertically, horizontally, laterally, their level of traction, the time to get to their peak performance and a rebound effect if there's any bounce back that they're feeling.
And so we can educate players and coaches and equipment managers.
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