Although it look very nice, but It seems to me that the field is very small from what I see form Webcam. Does anyone know the size of the field in Red Bull Areana, I can't find it anywhere.
I saw the webcam also, the cam is on a zoom setting. It s/b fine, I don't think it will be as wide as the Home Depot Center, it is bigger than Giant Stadium deminsions.
The pitch in Red Bull Arena will be 225′ wide by 360′ long. By comparison, our dimensions for Giants Stadium are 213′ by 330′ long. 3 feet is a yard that is 120x75 Home Depot Center -120 x 75 yards Crew Stadium 115x75 yards Pizza Hut Park 117x74 yards Toyota Park 120x75 yards
I recall the Galaxy played a few games with the full 75 yard width. Now they play a more standard width and the stands seem to be very far from the field. I've thought it woud be cool if the HDC added a few rows closer to the field. (And, yes I do understand the attendance limits that AEG inked with CSDH - it would still be great if it could be done.)
DSG Park is big enough for 120x80, which is what it was lined for in 2007. In 2008 Clavijo reportedly had it reduced to 120x75, and Smith chose to stay with that for this season. (I'm not so sure the FO didn't reduce it to add fieldside seats though )
Yeah man, the first years were awesome because they used the whole field which made the fans feel closer to the game. Now one end has a gap with advertising and both sidelines are somewhat distant from the field.
Actually, 75 yards is the standard width. The HDC's current playing width is substandard. Closer to home, I pray that Frank Yallop finally widens the playing field at Buck Shaw Stadium to 75 yards from the ridiculously (in a very bad way) narrow 71 yards he's played with in the last two seasons and keeps the 115 yards playing length intact (120 yards is the ideal length, but 115 yards is acceptable and is apparently the maximum playing length that Buck Shaw can accommodate) instead of regressing back to the equally-ridiculous 110 yards length as he did in the last offseason. -G
^ Great another dipsh@t that lacks reading comprehension skills and can't tell the difference between asking a question and bitching.
That and "improved defense" may have been Frank Yallop's intentions, but the smaller field didn't really help out in either regard. If anything, it was rather counter-productive for a team mainly built (at least for most of the season) on flank play that depends on having space, even when the midfield was strengthened in mid-season with the additions of Ramón Sánchez and André Luiz Moreira. Among other things, there were many times when plays died because normal-length passes would just get out of bounds before the receiving player could catch up to the ball, where on a regular-sized field they'd have kept it in and continued on with the play. Conversely, the up-down play became more noticeably flowing after the field was lengthened from 110 yards to 115 yards near the end of the season. -G
I remember the original 80 yard width as well for the HDC, but the reduction to say 70 is possible the way it looks on TV.
I don't think it has been cut all the way down to 70. They played with the full 80 the first year and still had room on the sideline for advertising boards and some space. It has been cut back in the subsequent seasons. I would still guess that playing surface is around 75 yards wide. There is just a lot of extra room surrounding it.