Football’s Dementia Problem
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- Football’s Dementia Problem
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In 2018 400 former footballers had been afflicted by dementia, according to Michael Calvin’s book State of Play. A study commissioned by the PFA and The FA found that former pros were between two and five times more likely to die from degenerative brain diseases.
Five of the starting 11 in England’s 1966 World Cup winning side (the greatest achievement in England’s international history) have been diagnosed with a disease connected to brain injury.
Ben Gilbert explains why football has a big dementia problem.
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On a cursory side note, I thought it was peculiar David Luiz was allowed to continue playing football when he was obviously concussed after his head collision with Wolves player Raul Jimenez.
Or Karius in the CL final in 2018
Or Blaise Matuidi and Amrabat in the 2018 World Cup. Matuidi was cleared to continue just to collapse 2 minutes after and Amrabat was SLAPPED by the medics.
"On a cursory side note, I thought it was peculiar David Luiz was allowed to continue playing football"
FTFY
Or Jan Vertonghen during a Champions League match
@@grumpiesttitan7930 FTFY ?
I always post jokes as comments but this is a serious problem. I hope all parties and stakeholder get together soon and find the most apt solution. Technology has improved a long way now that this issue cannot be overlooked.
Agreed
thing is, when do we draw the line and say a sport or an activity is no longer safe to play. I mean there is risk associated with doing anything in life. Car crashes are a leading cause of death around the world but that doesn't mean we should stop driving.
@@barta5ot-395 That's why seatbelts and other car items are there, to save to driver and passengers.
I think heading could maybe be done with lighter balls perhaps?
@@barta5ot-395 I cannot stress how, and I know this is not intentional, disingenuous and dangerous your argument is.
You example, cars, have more safety features than most people can count, from crumple zones to driving aids. Yes there are still deaths from car crashes but they are much, much less common than they used to be.
Arguing the sport is inherently dangerous and players should just 'get over it' is silly. Steps can, and should, be taken to reduce the dangers of playing any sport. Take Rugby, for example, they added the Gum Guard to protect players teeth. Noone is going to ban heading a ball nor make the players wear helmets. There will be common sense measures that can be taken to reduce or eliminate the risk of increased rates of dementia in footballers.
@@samtorr3947 maybe my original example is a bit misinformed but I still believe that before we rule out a sport for being too unsafe to play more research should be done.
I'd love to be able to look at research that doesn't have selection bias. The last big headline about CTE in American Football was limited to people that already had family members notice symptoms.
I understand that if let's just say the number of football players with CTE is 20% rather than 60% that's still a huge issue but its still a completely random number
CTE is real. Also the concussion protocols in football still seem so behind the times, like players being involved in huge head collisions (e.g. David Luiz/Jimenez), even being obviously concussed, yet still staying on the pitch
I have a question
When you get concussed it doesn’t hurt you instantly?
Or does it?
I really don’t know
@@ahmedfaraj2121 I've had a mild concussion. It hurts on impact but after a couple of minutes I just felt a little dazed and foggy. Ofc, I am not an elite athlete that has been conditioned to play through pain, and not wianting to let my teammates down, nor did I have adrenaline running through my body when I suffered the concussion.
Thats why using a players judgement is flawed, they will always feel (and want) they can carry on.
@@ahmedfaraj2121 I think it’s proven that the risk of a harder injury is way higher that’s why in American Football they now have very strict rules for that after some players sued the league for not protecting their players from this
@@stevendchu oh thank you now I know
@@jot9135yeah I think they should have rules in football ⚽️ too
Literally what I am studying in university right now
Do you think that dementia in footballers is less likely to happen now since the balls aren't hard leather ones like they were in the 60's?
@@bodonnell98 yup I have the exact same question
@@bodonnell98 not necessarily, the repeated banging of the head with modern balls can still lead to brain trauma. If you have a ball with too much air in it, that will be like a rock when you head it which can arguably cause "micro traumas" in the brain.
The data pool is really small right now as most cases of dementia only come about when people get around there mid to late 50's (as the brain damage would significantly increase cognitive decline) so we really don't know for sure.
@@BusinessGooseIncorporated zachary connik, i'll remember the name
looking forward to seeing you solve this issue someday hehe
Then hurry!
The concussion protocols are so bad, and unless a player had a severe concussion that renders him totally unconscious they would let him continue playing. The pressure on these player to preform is too high, this also relates to the pain killer abuse in football as well.
At least it was put in place and Holdings, the Arsenal defender was taken off as a 4th substitute against Man City when he was hit on the head by Cancelo's knee.
U don't need to be unconscious holding walked off the pitch
Exactly, he was hit in the head but seemed ok after a while. Arteta didn't take the risk(and rightly so) so he took him out as an extra substitite
The one person who I'm more concerned about than anyone is Chiellini. He's played through so many head injuries throughout the years.
Yeah
The problem is you cannot really eliminate headers without irrevocably altering the game of football itself. Hockey can eliminate checks to the head and fighting, but taking away heading would basically render corners, crossing, long balls and target men obsolete.
Would it though, crossing can be lower, corners can be played short, long balls would have to be controlled on the chest on with the feet, something that target men would have to evolve to do. Football evolves, it can here too.
@@christalbot7527 there no way I’m playing football like that especially as a defender like me i score many headers from corners how can u do a low cross the opposition can just intercept that easily
@@christalbot7527 Long balls controlled on the chest? Fair enough but then how would you recommend the defenders challenge that? It's impossible to chest something from behind someone so they'll have to use their feet, resulting in high boots or dangerous challenges which could make it more dangerous
@Saksham Jaiswal in rugby, scrum caps like the one Cech used aren’t worn to prevent dementia, more to prevent cauliflower ears.
@@Festus034 you have to be smart about it. Use pace, positioning, etc to find a bit of space. Use training to come up with unique drills and ideas about how to do it.
Thank you for this video. My grandfather who has been professional football player in 1970s-1980s, is suffering from this diease.Thank you for raising awareness of this subject.
What's his name?
Unfortunately, former footballers frequently suffer from brain trauma related illnesses later in life. Things like sudden death, stroke, Early onset Alzheimer's, CTE are just the tip of the iceberg. I'm happy that this is getting more attention these days and I hope that footballers get the help they need. The scary thing is that it effects basically anyone that plays football regularly, so please be careful and dont push yourself too hard. It could have lifelong consequences.
The fact that headgear hasnt been made mandatory when effects like this are known and have been for years is the most concerning thing.
@@jpeps_8842 Head gear doesn't do enough to protect players, and sometimes it does the exact opposite. It tends to give players a false sense of security leading them to head the ball more often and harder. It is similar to what happened with American football.
@@NJZ06 Headgear doesnt prevent concussions from severe blows suffered in boxing or from head clashes etc but it would reduce impact of a 400g ball hitting your head alot better
a little search on google and you can find examples of even just headbands which have been shown to eefectively reduce the force of the ball when heading
Damn. I played from age 5 to 20. From the mid 80s to the mid 90s. Goalies almost always punted throughout the time I played and heading the punt was almost always the preferred play. I played in America. A much more wide open, undisciplined game. "Boom Ball". There were A LOT of heading going on. Those towering punts would come down and meet your forehead like a rubber mallet. I was always tall (ended up 6'5") and as I got a little older, I practiced heading corners all the time. By 16, I would stay after practice sometimes and for 30-45 mins head a corner kick every 30 seconds or so. The more direct the ball in, the better to bulge the ole onion bag. And we didn't practice with highest quality balls. They were heavy and hard as a rock. When we were finished, my head would feel like a bee hive. Buzzing and throbbing. I know there must be a million people that did these same things. I'm 40 now. This is very concerning.
700 headers here...my head started hurting in my 40's ..at 47 now something irreversible has clearly happened it dimmed a light in me....plus 19 point blank strikes to the gonads-no children from me...our blind love of the game-in my case I played for 3 hours at a time 1st to show last to go twice a week is now untenable....it dims the light-its behavioral...soccer playing is a vice past a certain point-heading is an apex predatorial act it makes sense that there are consequences
Well peter chech raised the issue ....thanks tifo for making this video ..
@KOH CHUNG WEI Moe well...both would lead to prob some types of head protection, so kinda in the same catergory
@@lappodamy5826 Scrum caps/skull caps don't protect against this kind of impact I've heard.
@@lappodamy5826 a skull cap would not reduce the damage heading does to the brain because it is not the actual outside trauma that causes the brain but the impact between the brain and the inside of the skull caused by rapid acceleration and deceleration. The Brian kinda floats inside the skull, to massively simplify things, and can be rattled around. You can kinda feel it, and for the love of God don't do this, by shaking your head really, really quickly. It is very subtle.
@@samtorr3947 This isnt correct. Say you put a small cushion on your head, if you drop a ball onto you head without a cushion it hit your head with the full force, if you drop a ball onto your head with a cushion on the cushion will take some of the force out of the ball before it hits your head so the impact will be less.
It wont stop concussions from serious head clashes etc becuase concussions are cause by the movement of your brain inside your skull. But it would still absorb some of the energy and make the clash less severe than it would have been without any protection
This is one of the best videos on the topic. I was devastated when I watched Jack Charlton in a documentary. While describing his past glories to him, he just looked clueless, and he had a dim smile on his face. As if he knew he did it but he just couldn't believe it. Had no recollection of it. It was one of the saddest moments of my life. And I cried.
Sergio Ramos after watching this video: Oh shit...
Rio Ferdinand, Rooney, Ronaldo, Gary Neville, Maldini, Ramos...
Looks like Calvert Lewin should watch this video
Ronaldo too
@@imambruonyibnhowmasalstryn2659 Ramos as well
Chicharito😂
Wow, I'm getting worried about Cristiano and Lewandowski
(and about everyone else, but example of such stars dying from dementia strikes harder)
Seriously bro...
it's sad that u cant be the world's greatest strikers without being good at heading
but the balls from the 21st century are much lighter now than the one's used, of course frequent heading drills can make even a lighter ball cause damage but yeah it could happen to anyone.
Yeah I hope they would be safer...just think about those bullet headers from cr7. I almost dont want them to score headers anymore.
I think a way forward might be to further lighten the ball... That should reduce the risks at least from heading the ball... A lot more needs to be done though.
Bellini was Brazil's captain in 1958 WC. After his death, he was diagnosed with CTE and his brain was donated to a university so that it could be studied.
The head injury protocols are shocking in football - unbiased Head Injury Assessments need to take place off the pitch for at least 5 minutes, and in that time there needs to be an ability to make a temporary substitute.
The issue at the moment is that proper assessments are not under taken as a team doesn't want to be forced into a substitution. Football needs to look at Rugby and how it is implemented there - any significant head collision and you are off to the doctors for an assessment. Concussion is not immediately obvious and the player can seem fine for a minute or so, then suddenly have the effects come over them.
This is a really important step that needs to be taken, but Football are already far behind other sports in this regard.
For how good Pelé was at headers, I'm glad he hasn't suffered the same fate.
At least not yet.
He is often in the hospital, but not because of his head
boxers fight a few times a year in their prime.
Footballers player 40+ games a year and practice almost every game and surely head the ball several times in every practice session. The hits on the ball might not be nearly as strong as a punch, but there are a heck of a lot more of them.
Agreed, those accumulated damage racked up.
@@kameron1290 In the US, CTE is a problem with gridiron football. I am glad I didn't head footballs (what Americans call soccer balls). It may have been a blessing that the only sports I qualified for involved running and jumping. Can headers be eliminated? Is player to player contact and falls more of a problem?
Thank you for making a video on this. It is a tough topic to cover especially for football fans and fans of other sports. But thank you for bringing it to light!
Thank you for bring this up! I won't let my children play football rugby or boxing etc. Maybe baseball, basketball for team sports, or tennis for individual sports
Sobering video TIFO. We need concussion rules ASAP and more research into lighter footballs that can reduce the risk while still behaving well on the pitch...
Headgears to reduce the impact might work as well
I think lighter footballs are already there. Those england legenda refered in video were heading rock hard heavy pig skin footballs. The problem is still there but with current balls and style of play much of it is already eliminated.
@@sakarisalomaa2174 pretty questionable tbh, theres no way of knowing if the balls are currently light enough without waiting 40-50 years to see how the current generation fares. Some kind of head gear to reduce the impact of balls and just any other head clashes should be mandatory.
Most sports have mandatory head gear, football and rugby need to catch up fast to protect the players
@@jpeps_8842 yea I dont know about "light enought" but they are way better than they used to be. Imo the balls cant get much lighter because then it wouldnt be a football anymore. Hoping for some other way to make them bit safer of course!
Surprises me how little difference in weight there is between a 60s ball and a modern one, always seemed a big difference in weight whenever a new one came out when I was younger. I'd have thought that would have lowered the risk but no
The difference with the 60s leather balls was not so much their dry weight but how much heavier they got once they'd soaked up a bunch of water, they went from being roughly the same weight as a modern ball to almost double.
@@DjDolHaus86 that makes sense
The biggest problem with CTE is that it cant be diagnosed until after someone has died. American sports have been dealing with this for years, but unlike the rest of those sports, i have no idea how football is going to fix it other than developing a specialized helmet, which i know won't go over well with purists.
Finally someone aware of the concussion problem in football. Its really a serious problem, sure not serious like NFL but it still a problem. I think the best solution is to put a really serious concussion protocol after every game.
England has a drilling techniques culture that will cause nothing but wear and tear and in the case of headers CTE and dementia.
Other cultures are drilling tactics more and technique is up to your personal talent.
Even more prevalent in Scotland. Harsher weather and torn up pitched due to clubs smaller budgets makes Heading the ball far more prevalent than other countries. In Scotland not only dementia is a problem but MND and Parkinson’s due to heading.
And here I was thinking for all these years that the headaches on Monday morning was from the after match piss up. How wrong I was.
I'm glad you made this video domensia is an overlooked illness especially in football 👍
Well done Tifo for bringing this up. Very important.
I guess football and football (the american version) do have something in common afterall besides the name 😶 Jokes aside it is sad how athletes suffer for our entertainment in their later lives 😔 Learn from the past 💜
A few points-
Cte is not dependent on the severity of hits, but rather the frequency.
For the general population, the benefits outweigh the risks of football by A LOT.
In a study they found that the threshold for cte in football was 1000 hits /year. Thats roughly 3 headers if you play everyday. Anything above the 1000/year mark caused cte if you carried on for a significant amount of time.
To prevent cte:
Get flexible and use your legs
Train your core to insane levels (think calisthenics) the greater your body control the less of an issue head hits will become.
Strengthen neck muscles
Learn proper heading technique where you head the ball with your body moving in unison, not just your head snapping to and fro.
Remember, this is not american football which essentially guarantees adavnced cte. Even in the most prolific headers, cte was only mild.
got a link of that study? If I'm recalling correctly, the only way to someone has CTE is by examining the brain after death
3 headers per day seem perfectly normal for a footballer tbh. Aside from official matches there's also training
@@tatsuyasigh1906 3 headers a day isnt normal. You go many of training sessions without it. And you also have vacation
"For the general population, the benefits outweigh the risks of football by A LOT." Not true in the slightest, it's easy to get injured or injure someone when playing a sport like football, there's much safer ways to exercise whether you like it or not.
@@Supersayan21 i meant in terms of cte and brain injury. Obviously there are leg and other injuries associated with football
As a kid in the 80s I remember heading the ball at school and often coming home with the most excruciating headaches, the balls are lighter now but still.
I stopped heading the ball completely at pick up, enjoyment to risk ratio is just too far off
Wasn't a heading situation but an old mate of mine had a ball punted straight into his face from about 7 feet away at a kick about a few years back. He threw up straight after it and I thought it was an overreaction from him but he was diagnosed for a concussion and had like a week off school. I avoid getting my head anywhere near the ball after that. Don't wanna imagine what it's like having your head clash against someones else's in a game, stomach turning. Not suprising heading has been banned for young kids.
Brillant informative video as always. Great job Tifo team
so do this mean that we should oblige footballers to use head protection like petr cech, to hinder them from potential brain damage?
Yeah, that seems like a pretty harm-free way to prevent it, minus maybe the headgear can be uncomfortable but come on ;)), adidas, nike or puma will find a way for that problem :))
It has been showed that headgear doesn’t really help, as the best available evidence suggests that subconcussive impacts, not concussions, are the driving force behind CTE. Headgear in boxing for example doesn’t really help all that much, unfortunately.
@@rasmusnielsen5621 yeah I read that boxing helmets might actually be making CTE worse because they give a false sense of security that motivates boxers to punch harder in practice, believing they aren’t hurting their partners because there’s no bruising or cutting.
@Ben Reichardt this is a huge problem in American football. Even with all the new safety measurements in helmets, coaches are still teaching players to lead with the head when tackling
@@jessepinkman5409 in boxing the helmet when wet can be a decent amount of added weight on the pivot (your chin). Also peripheral vision is reduced and you can effectively blind someone by holding a jab out covering their eye slot and sneak a big right hand behind it.
Great vid! Would love another one or a pod on potential solutions for reducing this trend.
Wearing headgear should be compulsory, even if its just a scrum cap type like petr cech wore, it will reduce the impact.
This relates so much to what I'm studying at uni right now
I'm liking the idea of headgear. I think it should be legislated. It'll help avoid removing heading all together. As an amateur player I try head the ball as infrequently as possible. Once witnessed a truly horrific clash of heads in practice, and my psychology has never been the same since.
Pros are fortunate because they have medics who can attend to them immediately and can be taken to hospital quickly. What happens when in a Sunday League game you get a deep cut? Water and some sprays won't help. How will we deal with the pain?
I am not at all interested in contesting for balls in the box. I'd rather let a chance to score be lost.
How about using specialised light helmets?
They don't particularly help, same way headguards in boxing don't help
Tifo is almost at 1 million, wow! That's some growth
Unfortunately I think they need to give football a warning of dementia and tell people who want to become footballers that they need to realise it's very possible to get dementia. I think it will have to be like F1 by the fact you have quite a high chance of injury or death
Tifo, can you do a video about liquidated clubs and which clubs you predict to dissolve (mainly those currently participating in the EFL) in the next few years. Would make an interesting video.
At the this rate, Wigan could be one. If our new potential owners don't hurry up
@@christalbot7527 Yeah, I can't believe that scumbag Stanley Choi and Au Yeung would gamble the existence of a proud and historic club like Wigan for their own gains and private businesses. I hope Wigan can stay in League One this season or at the very least not drop down into the National League - the graveyard of so may other clubs. Stay strong, you Latic.
I would be interested to see if this is a problem that has not already been fixed. I am 44 and as a kid I played with leather footballs that were much heavier than todays balls, especially when leather soaked up rain and got heavier.
I think the new plastic balls have greatly reduced this problem.
Believe it was the 2002 world cup where the ball trend was to go plastic and lighter.
Gerd müller also suffers from dementia. He was the most famous german scorer in the late 60s and 70s
Not just the late 60s, one of if not the best of all time
@@reintaler6355 I was speaking of his activ time. But of course was he one of the best of all time including today
It’s sad but it’s a serious issue. I am a Manchester United supporter and I love watching my team but when I look at Harry Maguire play, I can’t help but feel anxious for him. Stats that praise him for his aerial dominance in certain matches make me think how much that could affect his health in the future. Harry is just one example of this and there are plenty of others who would be in a similar position if not worse but I hope something can be done to help prevent it.
Gotta start requiring Peter Cech's headgear.
I play football daily and i must admit i have been forgetting alot the past few years on a daily basis. Afraid what will happen in the future
Wanna see how much they care about head injury?
*Aggressively points at David Luiz vs Jimenez*
Had always thought that headers were quite safe - this video made me to reconsider
A handful of the Celtic 1967 European Cup winning side as well.
I saw the "Finding Jack Charlton" documentary recently, and they go into some detail about his dementia problem. Especially as someone that has Alzheimer running in the family, those parts were a tough watch.
I remember a long time ago, there was an American college soccer player who developed ALS from negative effects from heading
Victor osimhen also suffered a serious head injury yesterday
It's very frustrating how people are comparing heading a ball now, to the 60's-80's. How differently footballs were made back then compared to the modern technology we now use. Will heading those balls have exactly the same results, no. Will heading a modern football have some form of effect, yes but not as much as old fashion footballs.
I think everybody is overlooking the other issues to do with CTE. Many sufferers experience severe incurable mood swings, depression etc decades before they succumb to dementia which can make trying to live day to day very difficult
As a boxer, no amount of head gear can protect your brain.
a video on eduardo's injury ending arsenal's title chances in 08 would be good + arsenal's injury record in general
Maybe in the future they will ban heading but I don't see a way they could remove heading from the game
Unfortunately its crucial
So sad to see and hear of all the greats who have passed away from this disease. The modern game is extremely different animal to the game 60 years ago though and yes concussion subs needed to happen and there needs to be stronger measurements in place but I don't think it's as much as an issue now. Tony Cascarino took part in a very long interview for TalkSport announcing he had a form of Dementia but then also said its ran in his family for generations, so not sure if modern (90s plus) football will have similar statistics at all. Still something that needs addressing though.
Last year I had a blind passenger when I was a uber driver...he told me the story on how he got blind. He got a strong hit from the ball at the back of his head, he was find after that. And then a few days later, he woke up blind and the doctor confirmed that it's from the ball hit. That was so scary.
And compared to its cousins (eg. rugby, gridiron and aussie), assoc football is still the safest football.
It's just that our skulls are not meant to be hit regularly no matter what...
I guess current Footballers, are gonna have to wear, when they're playing or practicing, a rubber protective full on bodysuit. That will will protect them from dementia and concussions, and other injuries!....Rubber protective body suits is an idea that I came up with, that i got from looking at those rubber body suits, that surfers wear, to go surfing, in the beach. Except the only modification I would make is make the footballer's full body suits made of thick rubber, and that covers the body and face of the footballer's entire body. I would put extra rubber padding on the head part of the rubber body suit. This idea would be better than having footballer's wear a helmet... American-football, Ice Hockey, basketball, rugby etc, could all benefit from this idea, for they're player's protection!.
Honest question; I understand the issue and the correlation between heading a ball and dementia. But, given that the players we're talking about played with a football equivalent to a brick when playing with a modern ball, is there enough data that heading a modern football will continue the current trend?
It makes me worried about my Dad, he's played Sunday league for 30 years and heading is his speciality (he's had 3 or 4 concussions)
Please make a video on hand ball rules, it has become too vague now, we need to know more
Tifo. Please do a segment on Brighton. The way they play, I honestly think they deserve top 4.
Would a rugby helmet help solve the problem. Chivu from inter used to play with one
I saw this earlier today and just now i got a notification saying mcqueen got dementia aswell damn
Its terrible how football deals with head injuries for example david luiz and thiago both bleeding from the head playing on and karius playing most of a champions league final with a concussion
Tragic subject. Something needs to be done but I don't know what. What I will say though, is that the ball back in the 60s was very heavy compared to our modern balls. Although even our modern balls are still quite hard so you can only imagine how heavy and hard those old footballs were
Amazing video
Horrible disease, wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. It's the effect is has on the relatives and loved ones that is as bad as the disease itself
This videos timeline is just like the plot of concussion about CTE in the NFL. Problem found from repeated blows to the head. The NFL and Players association basically ignored the problem.
So what your saying is I shouldn't head the ball?
I initially thought that the concussion substitution of Holding yesterday was the reason why this video was made
CTE is a terrifying disease. Many in sports lost their lives to it too early. The NFL, and while not sport, wrestling has had many victims of CTE. The research of former wrestler Christopher Nowinski has helped a lot in both sports medicine and the continuing research of CTE's awful side effects. Mr. Nowinski's research has paved the way for added the safety measures we see now in sports.
Do we yet know if dementia rates increase due to lighter ball contact, such as juggling the ball off the head? Or is it constrained to harder hits like goals?
Concussion subs shouldn’t be at the discretion of the player/club. The PL should organise for an independent doctor to be present at every game to assess players and make the decision.
It’s just like the NFL’s CTE problem with concussions
it was way worse in the 20th century when the older type leather balls got muddier as they got played more, its much better now as balls have became lighter.
Can you do a video on how football would be affected if headers were removed?
Even more of a problem in Scotland. Windier, wetter and colder weather and worse pitches means the ball is in the air a lot more and thus headed more
This reminds me of the documentary i saw on the nfl head injurires and how they tried to hide it.
Boxing & HandEgg too
Bellini, brazillian captain and world cup champion suffer too from dementia
I completely agree with everything said in the video. Headers are obviously one of the reasons this is happening. Even so, I want to bring to the table that alcohol consumption is also a major cause of CTE. Pro players didn't care that much about their health back then. Alcohol consumption was many times over the roof. I believe it also had an impact on these diagnoses. Just my opinion though...Once again, I don't wish to say headers should't be studied and are not the cause of the late life diseases. It's just that the alcohol and in some cases, drugs, might bring the risk a little higher.
The benefits of playing football for living a include healthy diet and increased cardiovascular health and other health benefits. This means ex players life expectancy is increased which makes them more likely to suffer from brain issues, rather than say heart problems. That being said there are room for improvements such as David Luiz should have been subbed after contact with Jimenez.
The film Concussion comes to mind.
Players will have to get creative and find ways to improve their heading ability without physically touching the ball with their head hundreds of times per weak.
Here in America we just ignore it and hope it goes away.
do a video about painkiller abuse next pls
In the United States, headers in women’s football below the age of 18, have been voted on to be removed from the game.
Now thanks to the video I realized why I always was so uncomfortable taking headers lol
I hurt my head heading a ball in training that crap hurt like a *****
I think they should just ban headers in anything that doesn’t involve a scoring opportunity. If it’s a cross for a goal then yea go ahead and head the ball. But the 50/50 balls from goal kicks don’t really need to be headed at all. I don’t think it would change the game much if those were taken out of the game and it would reduce the amount of headers by a lot.
Footballers should wear protective helmets