‘Big Bird Grass’ moan… Cho Hyun -woo, Lee Chang -min, “Newcastle was struggling” → Incomprehensible level in 4 months
(Sporty News = Suwon, Park Dae -hyun) ‘Big Bird’ grass is moaning. It is inability to recover.
The K -League All -Star ‘Team K -League’, which was selected for fan voting and coaches, played a free season with the English Premier League (EPL) Kangho Newcastle United at the Suwon World Cup Stadium on the 30th.
It was a match with 22 stars in Korea this year, and many fans’ expectations were gathered with Newcastle, who raised the banner of renovation with the fifth largest EPL last season. The game ended with the team K-League’s 1-0 victory.
However, the two teams had a lot of concerns about the external match. Suwon World Cup Stadium, which is also the home of K -League 2 Suwon Samsung, has worsened with the naked eye.
The goalkeeper Cho Hyun -woo, a team K -League ‘regular member’, said, “The grass was definitely unstable. If it was better, Newcastle would have been better.” Lee Chang -min also said, “The pitch condition was not good.
The controversy over the Suwon World Cup Stadium is not yesterday. Suwon shook his head at 0-2 in the home game and home game on the 27th. The results were also unfortunate, but the grounds on the broadcast were serious at a glance.
The turf was so full that the players had difficulty in the basic ball control. It was pointed out from a plurality of football officials that “the level of impossible to recover.”
There are two main types of damage. This summer’s record heat waves have not been able to grow in the grass, and the turf damage has accelerated due to the external schedule, including the East Asian Cup and the team K -League.
▲ Korea Professional Football Federation
The Suwon World Cup Stadium Management Foundation is somewhat unfortunate. The Foundation has stopped the game since the second half of last season and replaced it.
From August last year, the budget was about 1.1 billion won for four months, and the main ground ground ground was replaced and the grass was repaired. Because of this, Suwon had a remaining schedule at Yongin Mirstadium instead of the existing room.
However, in just four months of the opening of the season, the ‘grass issue’ was on the cutting board. The excessive external economic attraction and extreme heat wave overlap, and the human resources and geniuses are merged.
The Suwon World Cup Stadium played the third line of the 2026 International Football Federation (FIFA) North Korea World Cup Asia. Goyang and Suwon were urgently used as ‘firefighters’ because of the poor grass of the Seoul World Cup Stadium.
The 2025 East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) E-1 Football Championship (East Asian Cup) women’s match was also held earlier this month at the Suwon World Cup Stadium. On the 9th, Japan, Taiwan, Korea-China War, and on the 16th, two games a day, two games, Japan, China and Korea-Taiwan, and the turf fatigue continued to accumulate.
In addition, the Team K-League-New Castle Exhibition, which was only three days after the E-Land War was over on the 27th, was not able to break up from the worsening of the turmoil in four months. On the day, both teams of friendly Gyeonggi -do were often struggling to continue shooting with irregular bounds and unstable stepping feet.
The football world points out that the Foundation should fully consider the grass and raise its voice in the process of discussing the economic attraction with the Korean Football Association. The only strict match that considers the pitch condition is the best way to reduce the ‘big bird moan’ even if it is a good place.
