Uefa to launch study into link between playing (soccer) and dementia

[nitpicker]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/38990953

Uefa to launch study into link between playing football and dementia

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From the section European Football

Uefa has commissioned a research project that will examine the links between dementia and playing football. Tentative research published earlier this week suggested repeated headers during a player's career may be linked to long-term brain damage. The research examined the brains of six players renowned for heading the ball - all of whom later developed dementia.

The Football Association has said it will look at the area more closely, but is yet to announce its own study. European football's governing body Uefa says the project, which will begin on Friday, "aims to help establish the risk posed to young players during matches and training sessions". One Premier League club will be involved in the study.

What is the FA doing? The FA says it is committed to supporting research into degenerative brain disease among former players, but authorities in English football have been criticised over a perceived reluctance to confront the issue.

Speaking in April, the FA's medical chief Dr Ian Beasley said the organisation wanted Fifa to investigate. He said it would be "taking some research questions to Fifa imminently" after it was revealed three members of England's 1966 World Cup squad - Martin Peters, Nobby Stiles and Ray Wilson - had Alzheimer's.

Ian St John, who played for Liverpool between 1961-71, says six of his teammates - from a group of about 16 players - now have Alzheimer's. "I don't know why the FA and the PFA have covered this up for years," he said on the Victoria Derbyshire programme. "I talked about it to the PFA a couple of years ago, and their answer was: 'Well, women get dementia, so therefore it's not an industrial injury'. Which is a load of nonsense isn't it?"
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[underpants]

1. A complete study would include people who watch entire baseball games

Two years ago, I think it was, headers were strictly banned in her rec league games and practice. Practicing headers was grounds for dismissing a (volunteer) coach.

Friends of friends had a kid several years ago playing at a really high elite club level (traveling to Europe) who had suffered so many concussions he was medically prohibited from playing for a season and had to do daily darkness therapy.

There is a problem.