Coach told me turf is destroying soccer

[Anonymous]

My child’s coach told me point-blank that turf is destroying soccer. He said the injuries caused by playing on turf are out of control and all the kids coming up now will have chronic issues and end up in surgery. It was a pretty dramatic claim, but he was so passionate and emphatic about his view. He’s a seasoned coach and he’s been at it for decades so I feel like he has the experience to make these claims.
Now I am completely rethinking whether my child should continue playing on turf.
Is anyone else concerned about this or have coaches brought this issue to your attention?

[Anonymous]

I've heard it from two physician (one osteo, one orthopedic) friends and a PT enough that I was thrilled my kid didn't want to play soccer beyond a couple seasons of rec that was on grass. Plus the cancer and endocrine disruption concerns. It's nuts that we as a society just blanket the ground with petrochemicals and then send our kids to play on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've heard it from two physician (one osteo, one orthopedic) friends and a PT enough that I was thrilled my kid didn't want to play soccer beyond a couple seasons of rec that was on grass. Plus the cancer and endocrine disruption concerns. It's nuts that we as a society just blanket the ground with petrochemicals and then send our kids to play on them.

$$$ It's much cheaper to maintain a turn field than a grass field. What's shocking to me is that even the richest privates use turf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child’s coach told me point-blank that turf is destroying soccer. He said the injuries caused by playing on turf are out of control and all the kids coming up now will have chronic issues and end up in surgery. It was a pretty dramatic claim, but he was so passionate and emphatic about his view. He’s a seasoned coach and he’s been at it for decades so I feel like he has the experience to make these claims.
Now I am completely rethinking whether my child should continue playing on turf.
Is anyone else concerned about this or have coaches brought this issue to your attention?

Buy turf shoes, and it's too expensive to maintain pitch quality grass for practice, games, tournaments, etc. in the same land mass. And that's if the field is single-sport use. Multi-sport use grass fields get torn to shreds without dedicated grounds crew.

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