BBC: Heading soccer balls "affects memory"

[Anonymous]

Hey, if you single sport your children while they are in elementary school that's on you. Happy that works for you. Mine are still enjoying competing in many things and we have no interest in letting them specialize. They are 6-10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey, if you single sport your children while they are in elementary school that's on you. Happy that works for you. Mine are still enjoying competing in many things and we have no interest in letting them specialize. They are 6-10.

5 is a ridiculous number of sports per year.

Dabbling.

[Anonymous]

Not really, it's only one sport per season plus swim team and golf team in the summer, when they don't have school. But like I said, you do you! Keep that kid heading the ball year round to save US soccer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can honestly admit that I don't give a shit about World Cup soccer or the place that the US holds amongst other countries. My kids aren't going to play World Cup soccer. I do care about my children's brains. Old fashioned like that.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am in Europe (an American) and the FIFA coaches here are highly confused by the American kid no-heading policy.

They want to know what we do on corner kicks or how if we don't allow it until 12/13 how a kid would ever grow to be an expert soccer player. The timing, the technique, etc.

I just laughed. I told him we are so far behind the rest of the Workd and US soccer just throws up even more obstacles.

I know a lot of former professional soccer players--none have had the issues that boxers or American football players experience.

It won't be long before our US youth soccer teams will be wearing helmets...

Yeah, can you believe the American media like the BBC reporting on this?

And you'd never see England's stuffy old FA doing any sort of research. Except this: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/heading-football-lead-developing-brain-8085648

And sure, no retired soccer players have had CTE. Except for the one who actually donated his brain for study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277667/

And thank goodness no players ever have to retire from concussions. Except Taylor Twellman. And Alecko Eskandarian. And Josh Gros. And Bryan Namoff. And so on.

[Anonymous]

Soccer players past a certain age do seem quite dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Soccer players past a certain age do seem quite dumb.

22?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am in Europe (an American) and the FIFA coaches here are highly confused by the American kid no-heading policy.

They want to know what we do on corner kicks or how if we don't allow it until 12/13 how a kid would ever grow to be an expert soccer player. The timing, the technique, etc.

I just laughed. I told him we are so far behind the rest of the Workd and US soccer just throws up even more obstacles.

I know a lot of former professional soccer players--none have had the issues that boxers or American football players experience.

It won't be long before our US youth soccer teams will be wearing helmets...

helmets won't make a difference again because at younger ages the concussion is caused by whiplash due to weaker neck, back and shoulder muscles, primarily in girls. They simply are not strong enough yet to head through the ball versus the ball simply hitting them. They are not strong enough to make use of proper technique yet.

[Anonymous]

Every year the age goes up for when heading is allowed in youth soccer. I'm pretty confident that it won't be an issue for my soccer loving kid as he will never be involved in international play.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can honestly admit that I don't give a shit about World Cup soccer or the place that the US holds amongst other countries. My kids aren't going to play World Cup soccer. I do care about my children's brains. Old fashioned like that.

Sorry you suck at sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am in Europe (an American) and the FIFA coaches here are highly confused by the American kid no-heading policy.

They want to know what we do on corner kicks or how if we don't allow it until 12/13 how a kid would ever grow to be an expert soccer player. The timing, the technique, etc.

I just laughed. I told him we are so far behind the rest of the Workd and US soccer just throws up even more obstacles.

I know a lot of former professional soccer players--none have had the issues that boxers or American football players experience.

It won't be long before our US youth soccer teams will be wearing helmets...

Yeah, can you believe the American media like the BBC reporting on this?

And you'd never see England's stuffy old FA doing any sort of research. Except this: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/heading-football-lead-developing-brain-8085648

And sure, no retired soccer players have had CTE. Except for the one who actually donated his brain for study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277667/

And thank goodness no players ever have to retire from concussions. Except Taylor Twellman. And Alecko Eskandarian. And Josh Gros. And Bryan Namoff. And so on.

Except all those players didn't get it from heading. They got it from collisions with other players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am in Europe (an American) and the FIFA coaches here are highly confused by the American kid no-heading policy.

They want to know what we do on corner kicks or how if we don't allow it until 12/13 how a kid would ever grow to be an expert soccer player. The timing, the technique, etc.

I just laughed. I told him we are so far behind the rest of the Workd and US soccer just throws up even more obstacles.

I know a lot of former professional soccer players--none have had the issues that boxers or American football players experience.

It won't be long before our US youth soccer teams will be wearing helmets...

Yeah, can you believe the American media like the BBC reporting on this?

And you'd never see England's stuffy old FA doing any sort of research. Except this: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/heading-football-lead-developing-brain-8085648

And sure, no retired soccer players have had CTE. Except for the one who actually donated his brain for study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277667/

And thank goodness no players ever have to retire from concussions. Except Taylor Twellman. And Alecko Eskandarian. And Josh Gros. And Bryan Namoff. And so on.

Except all those players didn't get it from heading. They got it from collisions with other players.

They also are not studies that target youth players which is what the heading ban targeted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can honestly admit that I don't give a shit about World Cup soccer or the place that the US holds amongst other countries. My kids aren't going to play World Cup soccer. I do care about my children's brains. Old fashioned like that.

Sorry you suck at sports.

Sorry that your kids must be so dumb that a little more brain damage doesn't matter to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can honestly admit that I don't give a shit about World Cup soccer or the place that the US holds amongst other countries. My kids aren't going to play World Cup soccer. I do care about my children's brains. Old fashioned like that.

Sorry you suck at sports.

I wasa Div 1 scholarship athlete. Marathoner and Ironman. But okay, sure, I suck at sports.

Are your kids playing for the US team? Amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can honestly admit that I don't give a shit about World Cup soccer or the place that the US holds amongst other countries. My kids aren't going to play World Cup soccer. I do care about my children's brains. Old fashioned like that.

Sorry you suck at sports.

I wasa Div 1 scholarship athlete. Marathoner and Ironman. But okay, sure, I suck at sports.

Are your kids playing for the US team? Amazing.

You do realize that extreme distance running is also really bad for you, right?