Experts believe there could be a link to repetitive heading of the ball. The Scottish Football Association (SFA) already has guidelines in place limiting heading in youth football, with a ban on ...

It will apply to all affiliated grassroots youth football and will be supplemented by support for young players as they adapt to heading the ball during their U12 season. Under the new rule ...

The Football Association (FA ... to “support the players’ journey as they adapt from deliberately heading the ball in grassroots youth football matches”. Under the new rule, a deliberate ...

The following guidelines for heading in training and matches should be applied to the game across the various ages and stages as outlined below. The Scottish FA recommend no heading practice in ...

As a robust and forthright defender, John Hughes was well accustomed to pummelling the ball with his head. Over a successful ...

The model was validated for passive football impact conditions represented by force–time functions and with experimental data. The effects of head/ball mass ratio, impact velocity, and elasticity were ...

It's about waking at 5:15 a.m. and heading to the football ... every ball on the hip, and if I do that 20 times in a row, then I'm OK. That's a good day, and we can do it again tomorrow." Today, there ...

“My seven-year-old son plays football, and I advise him not to head the ball. For me, that’s essential. “Even if it doesn’t cause any immediate trauma, we know that in the long ...