HAMMONTON, N.J. — On the biggest soccer weekends, the players come from New Jersey, Canada and beyond, their noses pressed flat against car and bus windows as they marvel at the sea of fields and the even larger panorama beyond: acres of lush, green, pristine grass.

This place is far from the glamour of big-time soccer and the World Cup in Russia. There are few amenities down at the end of this dirt road: just 35 full-size fields, endless parking, dozens of portable toilets and a cluster of food trucks. But there are no bleachers, no scoreboards, no public-address systems for the matches. Here, the soccer dreams of the young players, under the watchful eyes of soccer moms and dads, and dozens of college scouts, are contained only by the sidelines.

Almost none of them know the back story of why they are here, of the economic crisis that led the property’s owner, Tuckahoe Turf Farms, to welcome youth soccer onto a fraction of the 800 acres of sandy loam soil it owns in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The grass they play on eventually will be rolled up and installed in college and professional stadiums.

Once it is ready, Tuckahoe’s blend of cool-season sod is trucked to Heinz Field in Pittsburgh; to Lincoln Financial Field and Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia; to Red Bull Arena, in Harrison, N.J.; FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland; and Fenway Park in Boston.