Howardh
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https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...football-children-under-12s-sfa-a9285891.html
Yes, a thousand times yes. In fact I would go further and force adult players to wear headgear. Dementia is an awful illness (he writes, looking at his mother who has had the severest type for several years) and why increase the chances of getting this by continually thumping a developing brain with a ball?
So glad I didn't play football as a kid, and when I did I was a winger so never really got to head the ball. We could even eliminate heading the ball in football completely and play along the ground as in 5-a-side; although I admit that's a bit extreme.
Thoughts?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ct-voluntarily-surrenders-video-a9282791.html
The Scottish FA are considering banning children from heading the ball due to links between football and dementia.
BBC Scotland report the ban will be announced “within weeks” for children at under-12 level and below.
The move comes after the United States put a similar ban in place in 2015, and the SFA are set to emerge as the first European country to impose such a restriction.
The decision follows the release of a report by the University of Glasgow last October, which discovered former professional footballers were three-and-a-half times more likely to die of a degenerative brain disease.
Yes, a thousand times yes. In fact I would go further and force adult players to wear headgear. Dementia is an awful illness (he writes, looking at his mother who has had the severest type for several years) and why increase the chances of getting this by continually thumping a developing brain with a ball?
So glad I didn't play football as a kid, and when I did I was a winger so never really got to head the ball. We could even eliminate heading the ball in football completely and play along the ground as in 5-a-side; although I admit that's a bit extreme.
Thoughts?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ct-voluntarily-surrenders-video-a9282791.html