How many kids play soccor? How many concussions? How many dead? I would believe it to be statistically insignificant but oh well.
There have definitely been reports of head/brain trauma associated with “headers.” I’m anxious to hear what he has to say.
The concussion issue in soccer is not about kids. It is about the pro level. It is about the rules of the pro game which are the same world wide. The rule they are going to examine is the substitution rules. Now each teams gets 3 subs per game, and the player who comes off is out of the rest of the game. When a player gets dinged during the game, his team has to play a man down until he finishes the concussion protocol which can take 5-10 minutes, enough time to make a difference in a big game. Brendan Rodgers is not going to play a man down for that time period or take a key player off who might be able to continue. So the player does not come off due to the drive to win, millions of dollars are at stake in some of these games. This is what FIFA will have to examine, maybe a temporary sub to allow the concussion protocol to be performed. FIFA does not however want to change the nature of the game, one of endurance. This does not apply to the kids, since from the youngest age up thru the NCAA, the game is played with unlimited substitutions and reentry of substituted players.