Team reveals site for new RSL practice field

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Real Salt Lake broke ground Thursday on a new practice field near Rio Tinto Stadium to replace the one in Lehi that it has used the past few years.

Team officials plan to build the field at 10000 South and State Street, on land they have leased for five years from its owner, America First Credit Union. The field will be called America First Field, they said, but it's not expected to be ready until next summer.

The new location near the stadium will be more convenient for coaches and players, and provide them a flatter field on which to practice. The Xango Field site in Lehi is slightly crowned.