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Preparations were nearing completion at Dallas Stadium ahead of the July 14 FIFA World Cup semi-final clash between France and Spain, with the venue undergoing final touches to ensure it's in top condition for the highly anticipated match.

The natural grass pitch, cultivated under UV lights using an advanced growth system, was being meticulously watered and mowed to perfection in time for kick-off.

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00:23What we are doing here is hosting the biggest football tournament in the world, these are
00:27the best players in the world. We want to provide the best surfaces for them. There is a lot
00:33of work, a lot of research goes into making sure that we can do that. It's not just about
00:40having green grass. We have to make sure that these pitches play the way that these elite
00:46level players are used to, which is obviously where years of research and hard work has gone
00:53into. It's been very intense because what we've had, we've been fortunate before the semi-final
00:58and that we've had eight days in between the last game and this game to prepare. But previous
01:05to this, it's been two or three days between every game. So it's been very, very intense.
01:10And the guys have put in a lot of long, hard hours to make sure that nobody sees that.
01:17Well, that pitch then is removed and goes back to the artificial. It goes back to the
01:27Dallas Cowboys. You know, we've got this. This is a very, very busy stadium. It has a lot
01:32of events. So, you know, this pitch has done what it was here to do. It's then on to concerts
01:37and then NFL again.
01:38Our real goal was to have a little bit of the American sports culture and honour the
01:45standard, the normal football European, South American culture. See what we can do the best
01:49to bring them together, not force feed one into the other. And thankfully, I think it's
01:53worked out really well and the response has been excellent. I mean, the music, obviously,
01:55you've seen the Wonderwall viral moment. We picked that track and it went great. Other
02:00moments like Country Road to the States. And so, yeah, I'm really, really, really happy with
02:04the response. I think it's been fantastic.
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