Thursday, February 27, 2014

WARNING....for SOCCER players...especially the young!!

ON  AMERICAN  ABC  WORLD  NEWS  TONIGHT:

FOR  ALL,  ESPECIALLY  THE  YOUNG,  WHO  PLAY  SOCCER  ["FOOTBALL"  TO  THE  REST  OF  THE  WORLD  EXCEPT  NORTH  AMERICA]  ....  NOW  SCIENTIFICALLY  PROVED,  YOU  SHOULD  NOT  BE  "HEADING  THE  SOCCER  BALL"  ON  ANY  REGULAR  BASIS,  IF  UNDER  25.

THEY  SAY  "NO  HEADING"  AT  ALL  UNDER  THE  AGE  OF  14.

WHY?  SIMPLE.....  YOUR  HEAD  AND  BRIAN  IS  NOT  PHYSICALLY  FULLY  DEVELOPED  UNTIL  ABOUT  AGE  25.

BLOWS  TO  THE  HEAD,  LIKE  HEADING  THE  SOCCER  BALL,  UNDER  25  YEARS  OLD,  CAN  CAUSE  SERIOUS  HEAD  INJURIES,  BRAIN  INJURIES.

IN  MY  DAY,  BACK  IN  THE  1950s......  THERE  WAS  JUST  ABOUT  NO  EMPHASIS  PLACED  ON  KIDS  "HEADING"  THE  SOCCER  BALL.  I  WAS  CAPTAIN  OF  OUR  HIGH-SCHOOL  SOCCER  TEAM,  AND  JUST  ABOUT  NOBODY  "HEADED"  THE  BALL.  I  WAS  THE  ONLY  ONE  THAT  WAS  SKILLED  AT  DOING  IT,  AND  THE  TEAMS  WE  PLAYED  AGAINST,  I  DO  NOT  REMEMBER  ANY  OF  THEIR  PLAYERS "HEADING"  THE  SOCCER  BALL.  IT  JUST  SEEMED  BACK  THEN  THERE  WAS  NO  EMPHASIS  BY  TEAM  COACHES  ETC.  TO  BE  SKILLED  IN  TRYING  TO  "HEAD"  THE  SOCCER  BALL.

AND  I  ONLY  DID  IT  VERY  INFREQUENTLY,  MAYBE  ONCE  IN  EVERY  THREE GAMES.

THERE  ARE,  OR  SHOULD  I  SAY,  WERE,  MANY  WAYS  TO  BRING  THAT  HIGH  FLYING  SOCCER  BALL  UNDER  CONTROL.  WE  WERE  JUST  NOT  TAUGHT  TO BE....  "HEADING"  SOCCER  BALL  PLAYERS.  MAYBE  IT  WAS  ALSO  AN  AGE  WHEN  KIDS  JUST  DID  NOT  LIKE  THE  FEEL  OF  SMASHING  THEIR  HEADS  AGAINST  A  SOCCER  BALL.

BUT  THINGS  HAVE  CHANGED  A  LOT  IN  SOCCER  SINCE  THEN,  MORE  AND  MORE  PLAY  IT,  MORE  AND  MORE  SERIOUS,  PROBABLY  TOO  SERIOUS  A  COMPETITIVE  SOCCER  LEAGUES  TODAY.  SO  AS  KIDS  SEE  MORE  PRO  PLAYERS  "HEADING"  THE  BALL,  THEY  NATURALLY  WILL  DO  SO,  IF  NOT  TOLD  NOT  TO  DO  SO.

NOW  YOU  ARE  TOLD  BY  MODERN  SCIENCE  TO  NOT  DO  SO!!

SO  SOCCER  PLAYERS,  SO  PARENTS  OF  SOCCER  KIDS,  YOU  ARE  BEING  TOLD,  CHILDREN  UNDER  14  SHOULD  NOT  "HEAD"  THE  SOCCER  BALL  AT  ALL!!

AND  THOSE  OVER  14  VERY  VERY  LITTLE..... UNTIL  25  AND  OLDER.  TAKE  IT  TO  HEART,  COULD  SAVE  YOU  SERIOUS  BRAIN  INJURY,  AND  YES  EVEN  DEATH!!
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