Here is the link to the original article in spanish: http://espanol.sports.yahoo.com/030112/12/gf31.html Here is the translated version using Alta Vista Babel Fish: Golazo with old shoes Cristian Echeverria Sport Editor The Opinion - What they would have to be 125 thousand unsuitable shoes of futbol, became a new field for many neighbors of centrosur of Los Angeles, inaugurated yesterday with the endorsement of the Federation of Futbol of the United States. This project, leaves from the denominated program Reuse-A-Shoe de Nike that transforms recycled footwear into sport fields, will benefit by the hundred from neighbors that surround the park Ross Snyder, located in the 1501 this of street 41. This field is an important support for the development of the communitarian leagues like the Central North American Youth Soccer League, that at the moment it has more than one hundred equipment, with almost two thousand children and adolescents of between 5 and 18 years. During the act communitarian and representing leaders of different governmental organizations participated, of the company Nike and the soccer player Chris Armas, member of the Chicago Fire of the MLS. Also selected the national one said to feel moved when seeing the enthusiasm of the young people who participated in the inauguration. "a day I was like you in the Bronx, New York. I know what is to also have illusions and what is to suffer by the lack of worthy fields to practice futbol. This is one of the things that move more to me ", needed Armas. According to directors of Nike this field represents an innovation by the material of its construction, since it saves operating expenseses and it lasts of between 10 and 15 years, without no type of repairs. "Field Turf is a used surface of synthetic turf in diverse professional fields and university like the Tropicana Dome, Tampa Bay, in the University of Washington, where they play the Seattle Seahawks", it needed Joe Elsmore, director of market of Nike. Also, Elsmore indicated that at the moment they try to make specific the visit of the selection of Brazil in some American city. "We are in that, at the moment only we have made specific for June or July the encounter between the United States and Portugal, like revancha of the last Glass of the World. Still we do not have field but it is a fact ", added. This he is one of the three fields that they have thought to construct this year. The other will be implemented in a city of Chicago. What do more For Mexican technician René Miramontes, one of the recognized technicians more in the angelina community by the implementation of the project of the District Youth Center, the opening of these fields is a latent necessity and an obligation in a country where futbol already has taken a special place in the taste from people. "the optimization of resources is a phenomenon that the society has transformed. Doubt does not fit that the presence of these fields is going to revolutionize the system. It will be important that they do more in several parts of the country ", needed. More information in the Digital Opinion. http://www.laopinion.com/deportes Receive, in addition, the and-bulletins of laopinion.com in his electronic mail. http://www.laopinion.com/deportes
Is Chris Armas a local resident of So. Cal.. I would have thought they would have had a Galaxy player representing.