Hockey clubs used to be able to choose between sand-based artificial turf or a fully synthetic water-based field. A water-based field is financially more difficult to achieve for many clubs due to the higher costs of the field, the irrigation system and also the water consumption. Sand-based artificial turf systems were consequently also most common.

Desso Sports Systems searched for a solution and developed the semi-water-based field Desso Trophy. This "sand dressed" artificial turf field offers the quality and characteristics of play of a water-based field for a price that is more common for sand-based quality. The Dutch hockey club Asten-Someren took the opportunity and installed a semi-water-based field from Desso as one of the first. With results.

"Since HC Asten-Someren began using its new hockey field, the club has truly blossomed. " That is the conclusion of Wil Hoebergen, former chairman of the Dutch second division hockey club. "The great advantage in relation to the sand-filled fields is that the game speed is much higher and the speed of the water-based fields is almost equalled. In relation to water-based fields Desso Trophy also has the advantage that a high ball only bounces once and then rolls, whereas it continues to bounce on a water-based field. There is also often a fight here about who gets to play on the Desso Trophy. Visiting clubs have also discovered the qualities of our field." I partly attribute the many extra members in our club to the installation of our Desso hockey field. Everyone wants to play on it, everyone is enthusiastic."