John Sorochan

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Short Wave · Why did designing the World Cup pitches take eight years? · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

But you can with the turf grasses.

And that just gets them to actually grow up and put new leaves.

So that's what's unique about turf grasses.

Yeah, so I think it's increased the awareness of what goes behind it.

A lot of the research we've done that FIFA did wasn't even used in this World Cup, but it's done a lot of innovative things.

We developed and we worked and we proved the concept of what's called a shallow pitch profile, where we just now showed that you can come in in a short period of time and put a nice natural grass field in, play a game in, take it out,

And you can get ready for motocross or the truck and tractor pull or Taylor Swift or whatever you want.

That's really cool.

And then just some of the other stuff that's going to have the legacy and trickle down.

There's all sorts of things that, how do we help the average city park and rec field to get better and safer for maybe what we might consider the most important athletes, which is our children that are playing on them, right?

I think that's, to me, one of the great outcomes that's come from this and that will continue to go as we disseminate the information that we've gained over these last several years of doing research.

You know, as a Canadian, I was obviously cheering for Canada, but I love all the teams.

I'm cheering for the pitches now, first and foremost.

Absolutely.

Thank you for reaching out and wanting to do this.

This has been a lot of fun.

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