⚽ Cox: Is heading absolutely necessary to the game of football?
(theathletic.com)
Written By Jason
2021-08-09T20:13:00Z
Excellent article about the long term impact of the header on player brain health in soccer and the best suggestion I've heard to date for how to improve things: make them illegal outside the penalty boxes. This would keep the exciting scoring plays around while eliminating all the unnecessary and usually ineffectual heading around the midfield that happens after long kicks out of the goal. Hopefully a rule change of this nature can be trialed and studied in a tournament setting in the near future.