There will be a significant Irish on-field presence at this summer’s
World Cup in Russia with a Sligo-owned firm selected to install six of
the 12 pitches used at the tournament, including the final. George Mullan, owner of SIS Group. Pic: James Connolly / PicSell8SIS
Pitches was selected to design, construct and install six pitches,
including the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, which will host the opening
game and the final.
It is the first time a World Cup final has
ever been played on anything but all-natural grass, after former Fifa
general secretary Jérôme Valcke outlined plans in 2014 for a men’s final
to be played on a synthetic pitch “sooner rather than later”.
SIS
Pitches, which was set up in 2001 by chief executive George Mullan who
directs the company from Sligo, lay grass and synthetic pitches and
sports surfaces at some of the biggest stadiums around the world.
Russian
organisers say the Luzhniki Stadium will be the most advanced in World
Cup history with the use of the company’s reinforced natural turf system
called SISGrass.
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