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Article: Real Salt Lake gives up on search for outdoor practice facility
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 20, 2005
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Leading up to Real Salt Lake's home opener last Saturday, some of
the talk revolved around what a great home-field advantage the field
turf at Rice-Eccles Stadium was for the expansion Major League Soccer
franchise.
Unfortunately for RSL, playing its home games on turf puts the
club at a disadvantage on the road playing on grass in every other
stadium around the league except the MetroStars -- who also play on
turf, but Salt Lake already made its only trip to New Jersey in its
season opener.
It's especially troublesome, because quite frankly, the team has
exhausted its search for an outdoor practice facility and is resigned
to the fact that there just isn't a quality field anywhere. Putting ...