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[quote=Anonymous]This topic comes up frequently, and it is often a surprise to consider that the sport that (sometimes) seems less violent, soccer, actually has pretty high injury rates.  It is often more meaningful to look at rate of injury rather than just incidents such as from 2010 NCAA Injury Data:

"...concussions account for about seven percent of game injuries in the five fall sports studied (football, men's soccer, women's soccer, volleyball, and field hockey) and five percent of practice injuries. They are the second most common game injury in both football and women's soccer. Concussions are most common in football with 2.7 concussions per 1,000 exposures meaning for every 1,000 players who took to the field for a game, 2.7 would suffer a concussion. 
Although most of the discussion on concussions has been focused on football, women's soccer is not far behind with a concussion rate of 2.1 per 1,000 exposures. Men's soccer reported a rate of 1.1 per 1,000.
....It may come as a surprise that when practices and games are combined, football did not have the highest injury rate or even second highest. Women's soccer had the highest combined injury rate with 10.9 injuries per 1,000 exposures, with strains and sprains accounting for nearly half of the injuries. Men's soccer had a combined injury rate of 10.7 and was followed by football at 10.5. Field hockey players suffered 9.2 injuries per 1,000 exposures and volleyball players had 7.9."

There are other studies of course, so slice and dice the numbers however you want.  And everyone already knows about the possibilty of injury in football, but soccer should not be considered low risk.[/quote]

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