Banned Heading?

[the8]

A yo check this article out. I read at the end of May for my global issues class. I know I'm late because it was published on the 27th of last month.

Besides, this is the dumbest thing I've every heard. Whats your position on this decision?

Mines is to rule against the rule.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/040526/19/p64s.html

[Tony Dellbird]

I dont really give two sh1ts scientists cant make their mind up whats safe anymore, first its 'safe, safest thing in years' few years later 'corrr worst thing ever we told you this will happen'.

Surely though heading with your forehead should be alrite but defensive headers if they hurt when you do them you're doing them wrong and probably will cause brain damage but meh i don't care either way, computers probably give you worse brain damage and cell phones too!!

[Paddster]

What have you ment to do when you are two yards out of goal, the balls coming at you at 20 miles per hour, and it's the last minute of the world cup?

Hmmm, don't think so.

[Spidah]

Whats next stopping the ball with the chest gives you heart problems or lung cancer ????

[romagol10]

ha, the article suggests wearing soccer helmets. Until atleast 50 people die in one year while in the act of heading a ball, I'll head it all I want (without wearing head-gear either).

[da_man]

ha, the article suggests wearing soccer helmets. Until atleast 50 people die in one year while in the act of heading a ball, I'll head it all I want (without wearing head-gear either).
OMG your so tough, i think most people here will header the ball no matter how many people die of doing the same thing. I know i would whats soccer without the right to header the ball!!!

[jtowns3]

OMG your so tough, i think most people here will header the ball no matter how many people die of doing the same thing. I know i would whats soccer without the right to header the ball!!!


Agreed! I think that most heading injuries occur when people let the ball hit them instead of them going up to meet the ball. improper technique is to blame, not heading in general.

[C. Ronaldo7]

I am having trouble understanding why the scientists are saying this now, maybe I have been heading the ball too much.

[PumaJohnny]

I got a research grant in college to study the effects of heading on high school soccer players.

There are cognitive deficits among soccer pros, and I was wondering if they were aquired from life-long play or if they were exclusinve to the soccer pros (a kind of work-related hazard).

I used the Rey battery to test verbal and visual memory and tested a group of high school soccer players and their non-soccer peers. There were no statistically significant differences in the scores, so we conlcuded that these seen at the profession level are more than likely work-related issues.

[the8]

Good looks on the research.

[BurnSC89]

what exactly are you supposed to do on corners, then? try for a direct shot? it would change that part of the game entirely, and the strategies that go with it. kicking the ball against a defender to get a corner when you are hopelessly outnumbered on the attack is almost pointless. it gives defenders too much of an advantage.