Good Old USofA

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They should have tried heading a sodden 1950 leather fitba'.

Anyone catch the recorded phone call from an American to his 14 year old daughter.
She must have been using an old fashioned telephone and he asked to hang up.......and she did not know how to do it.
 
Typical US. OK to teach a kid to use a firearm and to feed them junk food but not to play a sport that will have health benefits becuase a few headers may do damage. Coach them properly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Does make some sense surely, its not like they are banning football just heading for up to U11's?

Children aged under 11 don't need excessive bangs on the head, and they should be passing it around on the ground anyway! ;)
 
I see a fair bit of pro club's academy football at U10/U11 age group - In the last couple of years I don't think I've seen a kid head a ball at that age - if they are doing what they are coached to at 10/11 or under then there's no reason they would be heading a ball.
 
I see not much wrong with this. Kids are still growing and developing. Ball should be on the ground anyway.


Keep it futsal.
 
Like I put I can see the reason, to a degree, but then aged 11-14 you are only allowed to head in matches, when and where do you learn, and for all the it should be kept on the ground are you expecting the kids to duck under a ball if it coming towards the goal in the air and let the opposition score?
 
All those games of head tennis have clearly harmed me... I could have been a contender, or a nuclear physicist, if it hadn't been for heading sodden casey's... and if you caught it on the laces!!
 
Threads like this crack me up, it's a excuse to come up with all the lazy anti American cliches. Head injury in sport, American sport especially, is a hot topic. It's a mechanism in lawsuit avoidance.

It's not done as a knee jerk reaction, it's been a decision made backed up by medical evidence.

And to draw a comparison with gun crime is quiet frankly, mental.
 
From a health standpoint, they are right. At that age, kids have heads which are almost adult size, but their neck muscles are not strong, and the brains are still developing fast, so the risk of head or neck damage is high.

Whether people can or cannot carry guns has nothing to do with it. America is a strange and contrary place, for sure, but they may be right on this one.
 
pauldj42 said:
So US Football (Soccer) authorities have banned kids aged 10 and Under from heading a ball and 11-14 year olds can only head in matches.
I get it's for health reasons, bit they ban Haggis and Kinder Eggs as well, but don't worry, Guns are OK, some of their priorities are mental to me.

http://news.sky.com/story/1585183/us-soccer-bans-young-players-from-heading-ball
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When I used to play football, the ball was a heavy stitched leather thing that used to get even heavier when it got wet. I was once knocked unconscious for about 2 minutes when I was hit on the head with one. The West Bromwich Albion centre-forward Jeff Astle, who was a fearsome header of a ball, was ruled to have died of an industrial injury (brain damage from repeated heading of a football) when he passed away at no great age a few years ago. The footballs they play with these days are more like beach balls, and far less likely to cause brain injury. Not the greatest health threat to American kids!
 
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delc said:
When I used to play football, the ball was a heavy stitched leather thing that used to get even heavier when it got wet. I was once knocked unconscious for about 2 minutes when I was hit on the head with one. The West Bromwich Albion centre-forward Jeff Astle, who was a fearsome header of a ball, was ruled to have died of an industrial injury (brain damage from repeated heading of a football) when he passed away at no great age a few years ago. The footballs they play with these days are more like beach balls, and far less likely to cause brain injury. Not the greatest health threat to American kids!
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If you headed those balls in your youth Delc, you are a walking, talking poster boy for the anti heading movement :)
 
therod said:
If you headed those balls in your youth Delc, you are a walking, talking poster boy for the anti heading movement :)
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I generally tried to avoid heading the ball if I could because:
a) It hurt.
b) I was a professional scientist and needed my brain for work.
 
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