The negligence in the care of the grass of the estadio Azteca has led the National Football League (NFL) to cancel their annual match in Mexico City. The game between Kansas City Chiefs and Rams, scheduled for next Monday 19 November, will be played in Los Angeles. The black incident has strained relations between the organizers in mexico and the highest League of american football. Mexico will not get close to 45 millions of dollars as a concept of economic spillover.
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The experts of the NFL analyzed the field for the aztecs since last Monday and found that the field was shattered. The causes, as have informed in a press release, it has been the rainy season and the multiple events at the stadium. These conditions “present unnecessary risks to the safety of the players and makes it inappropriate to host a game in the NFL,” wrote Mark Waller, executive vice president of the international League.
The NFL has decided, in 2016, re-organize a match of the regular season in Mexico City after 11 years of not doing so. Promoting tourism in another international event, the Formula 1, was one of the incentives for his return to Mexico. The past few games, the Oakland Raiders – Houston Texans and the New England Patriots – Oakland Raiders, he left in the coffers mexican about 45 million dollars. Last year, a few hours of meeting of the Patriots, the ministry of Tourism had announced the extension of contract to hold matches until 2021 because, according to the very NFL, had been a resounding success.
A panoramic image of the stadium Azteca. M. Velasquez Getty
The field of the main stadium of Mexico has had a hard wear in the last six months. The precinct headquarters of two World Cups, has been the site of the games weekly in League and Cup, of two clubs: the America and the Blue Cross. In the same week are vying for up to two matches. To try to prevent the impairment changed the natural grass to a hybrid made by the company specialized Turf Managers. Last July, the change of grass, aroused suspicions. From that moment on, the field conditions are not improved. The authorities of the Aztec determined that the grass needed time for adaptation and pointed out that the court was “stressed out”.
Despite having the commitment of the NFL, the authorities at the Azteca stadium assured that the grass would improve soon; however, in October the field was used for a massive concert of Shakira, and six days before the cancellation of the game of american football, was used for another musical event. The ravages were noticed last Saturday during the match between a match of the mexican League football. The embarrassment of the grass in the Aztec has been distressed to the NFL.
