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Originally Posted by SPATCH
You are right. There are a lot of concussions in soccer. I think it's crazy that most soccer players don't wear a mouthpiece. My kid certainly will.
It's not just the concussions, though. It's the constant sub-concussive blows that your head takes throughout a football game/practice.
I have personally dealt with a noticeable loss of cognitive ability in my early twenties that I can only attribute to ten years of tackle football (playing both ways every season).
Which brings up another point: if my future son does want to play football, I might try to make him wait until at least 7th grade and try to make sure he only plays on one side of the ball.
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Same here, so I completely understand your thought to avoid football. If I (or my parents) known back then what we know now, I wouldn't have played.
Just pointing out that soccer isn't exactly exempt from the concussion crisis either.