After 30 years, Google Maps images forces Argentine FA to ask club to fix pitch

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From above, the football pitch in Liniers – a working-class neighbourhood in Buenos Aires – looks like an elementary school pupil’s first attempts at geometry: the touchlines are parallel, but the goal lines both slant disconcertingly, and one half is noticeably shorter than the other.

Yet for nearly 30 years, the fifth-division team have made the best of the pitch.

Now, however, the Argentine Football Association has ordered the club to fix the field by 15 December – or risk permanent closure.

Liniers president Marcelo Gomez says officials realized that the field was crooked after they saw aerial images on Google Maps.

“The field always worked without a problem,” Gomez told the Associated Press. “We knew that it’s something we needed to fix one day, but this order just came all of a sudden.”

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