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Forest Green Rovers, the world's greenest football club

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Stroud, United Kingdom, Oct 2 (EFE), (Camera: Will Oliver).- On the approach to the New Lawn football stadium, a few features rarely seen at soccer ground catch the eye — the solar panels, the charging stations for electric cars and architectural details accentuated with green paint.Welcome to the humble home of Forest Green Rovers, recognized by Fifa as the most sustainable football club in the world. In one of the stadium’s stands, which has the capacity for 5,700 fans, club chairman Dale Vince spoke to Efe about his ethos and the changes he has made for the local team. “I think we didn’t just create a new kind of football club, I think we created a new kind of football fan,” Vince says.The club currently plies its trade in the fourth division of English football, League Two. FOOTAGE OF THE NEW LAWN STADIUM IN NAILSWORTH.SOUNDBITES OF DALE VINCE, FOREST GREEN ROVERS CHAIRMAN.

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