Football goes to the rooftop in Chennai - solution for lack of ground space

Chennai is setting a new trend and revolutionizing the way how football is played. Due to lack of ground space, football is taking to the rooftops. With the invasion of concrete, football turfs are now sprouting on roofs of buildings. They are certainly not be the usual 100m x 50m fields, but are a little more than 5,000sqft. Balls and referees are thrown in and enthusiasts have no room to complain.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 7 April 2016.

Chennai now boasts of two football turfs. One is Netz Cricket inside the Citi Centre mall (which doubles up as a football turf). The second is Tiki Taka, on the rooftop of a three-storey building in Kilpauk, A third one Game On is set to open shortly - it is at 100 feet atop an IT building in Egmore.
Rooftop turfs usually charge up to Rs 3,000 an hour, which works out to Rs 200 per head for a five-a-side game. Most of these rooftop turfs are smaller than regular football fields and the game of futsal, which is a modified form of football played with five players a side, is perfect.
Incidentally, the popularity of both Tiki Taka, and the mall-bound Netz is such that one needs to book days, sometimes weeks, in advance to find a slot. Tiki Taka is just six months old and the astro turf receives up to 100 footfalls every day.(br>

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