The world's first artificial football turf Polytan, certified according to the FIFA Handbook 2015 with the prestigious FIFA Quality Pro certification was set up at the Aminess Football Centre in Novigrad, Istria.
This very demanding and expensive project was realized in cooperation with the Maxmar Group from Zagreb and fully meets all the needs of professional clubs and players in top leagues.
Mladen Knezevic, the marketing director at Aminess Hotels & Campsites commented, ''More than a hundred football teams a year, mostly from Croatia, Austria, Slovenia and Germany come to preparations to Aminess Hotels & Campsites. Manchester City Juniors will visit us for the fourth time in a row this year, whilst we have been hosting first league players at Istria Winter Cup for seven years now. Furthermore, the second Istria Youth Camp will be held in October 2017, which will gather younger selections of the best European clubs such as Milan, Roma, Manchester City, Dinamo, Redbull Salzburg and others. The fact that over the past few years we have been recording a continuous increase by 10% -15% in arrivals of sports groups and individual athletes, has only led us to a decision to direct our investments in the high quality sports infrastructure''.
Polytan is a manufacturer of synthetic turf systems across the world and has been a FIFA Preferred Producer since 2011. In December 2016, Polytan, together with its partner company Maxmar Group, installed the LigaTurf RS Pro II CoolPlus premium football turf system with the Bionic Fibre infill granules and an elastic layer laid in situ.
Carried out according to the new FIFA criteria at the beginning of this February, the certification confirms that the playing surface meets the highest standards in terms of playing properties, safety, long life and execution of construction work.
For the Aminess Football Club in Novigrad, the FIFA Quality Pro certificate is also a prerequisite for staging recognized international matches as well as international club competitions and is confirmation from the world’s football governing body of the high quality of the synthetic turf.
