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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