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How Are Headers In Football Actually Taking Lives?

How Are Headers In Football Actually Taking Lives?

Goal 90 vor 4 Jahren

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For footballers, what’s the one thing that puts them at risk of
this condition? Headers! Over the years, we have seen
different footballers come out in bad condition after going in
for an aerial duel. Some start bleeding on the spot. Some
are disoriented for some minutes due to being concussed. Oh, by
the way, statistics show that 22 percent of injuries in football
these days are concussions.

That shows you how common they are. Some require an
ambulance to take them off the pitch like Ronald Araujo against
Celta Vigo. Some crack their skulls like Petr Cech. Some even
nearly lose their lives on the spot, Raul Jimenez against Arsenal
in 2020 being a pretty recent example.

Now, these are the ones with immediate and obvious impacts.
What’s scary is that, sometimes, a player could win a clear
header and feel perfectly normal at that moment, but that could
be contributing to their risk of suffering from CTE later in
life.