Lawyers aka ambulance chasers would be very unhappy if we elimated heading through out the world. Trust me that would never happen. We are the country that have eleminated heading for our younger players. Germany and the Dutch has not done it. Is that going to make our players better at heading in the future? No way the same coaches that are telling our players not to head now. Will be telling them it is ok to head later. They will have to tell them why they can’t head. So why might get brain damage, but later you won’t. Ridiculous At a young age you can’t even head a high bounce to your own foot to gain control of the ball. Does that make any sense to any one? Personally, I rather players did not have to head as much. Here is how you can play. Ok if you play two touch on the ground passing. Your heading attempts in a game will be far less then if you play an in the air direct game. If you work on an inside attack. You will head less then if you attack using the flanks and do a lot of crossing. But if your playing against an in the air direct team on defense you would think you have to do more heading. You can play deeper on defense to try to keep the ball more in front of you. So you can play the ball with your body and less with your head. Then he passes short to his close receivers. You can counter by playing the ball into space instead of right at your target player. Then he can just run on to that pass. On your keeper distributions work on throwing instead of punting. It is faster more accurate and your not going to have to head a throw as you might with a punt. Any of you guys ever play American football and try to catch a punt from someone who can really do a high long distance punt. The chances are the first time you tried to catch one the ball went through your hands. The ball comes down very heavy you have to get used to catching them. Like I said throw as the most common distribution. But sometimes you may have to head the ball. So head to your short pass options instead of your long pass options. Head the ball to the ground instead of back into the air. But you still have to learn how to head the ball the right way.
It could easily work. Not even getting into the safety and health benefits, it would eliminate those ping pong header exchanges which accomplish nothing. And U.S. development wise, more emphasis on intricate ground play over rudimentary "get your body behind it" advice is always a good a thing.