As Sporting Kansas City's captain, midfielder Davy Arnaud is a company man, one who often toes the line between saying the "right" and "honest" thing. But go ahead, ask him about the place of synthetic turf in Major League Soccer. All of a sudden, Arnaud becomes incapable of giving the company line. "We don’t like (playing on it), and if anybody else tells you they do, they probably play their home games on it," Arnaud said. "The sooner we can (convert) all fields to grass, the better. It's not what the game is meant to be played on."

MLS captain doesn’t like synthetic pitches

As Sporting Kansas City’s captain, 30-year-old midfielder Davy Arnaud is a company man, one who often toes the line between saying the “right” and “honest” thing. But go ahead, ask him about the place of synthetic turf in Major League Soccer. All of a sudden, Arnaud, who is as passionate about the game as they come, becomes incapable of giving the company line. “We don’t like (playing on it), and if anybody else tells you they do, they probably play their home games on it,” Arnaud said. “The sooner we can (convert) all fields to grass, the better. It’s not what the game is meant to be played on.”

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