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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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...

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

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

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