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New guidance on Heading in training

SELR_addicks
SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446
in Other Football and Sports
English football authorities release heading guidance for training for all levels from 2021/22, recommending "maximum of 10 higher force headers in any training week". "Higher force" means "headers following a long pass (more than 35m) or from crosses, corners and free-kicks".

Guidance recommends clubs develop "player profiles that consider gender, age, position, number of headers per match and nature of these headers". Staff encouraged to work with players post-match to ensure "they have adequate time to recover from their heading exposure".

Guidance suggests clubs consider adapting practices. "Evidence suggests lower forces are produced when a ball is thrown to a player rather than kicked, and when a player heads the ball from a standing jump rather than running on to the ball." Guidance via FA, PL, EFL, PFA and LMA

Bullingham (FA) says heading measures "developed following studies with coaches/medics and represent a cautious approach while we learn more. Important to remember the overwhelming medical evidence is that football and other sports have positive impacts on mental/physical health".

Comments

  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,313
    Stockley and Inniss might as well spend training playing chess eh
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    very sensible
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,247
    May as well sell Stockley now
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    I’m not saying it’s the wrong thing but it’s a pointless directive in professional football. No idea what the solution is.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,033
    sam3110 said:
    May as well sell Stockley now
    It’s probably the opposite, players who have already developed a high degree of competency in heading are at an advantage compared to younger players who haven’t had that chance and will find it more difficult.

    Sensible idea, not certain on the execution but presumably the guidelines will develop over time as we learn more. 
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973
    Is this taken from new research of heading current footballs or the effects it’s having on retired footballers that played with heavy wet pigs bladders? 
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    ValleyGary said:
    Is this taken from new research of heading current footballs or the effects it’s having on retired footballers that played with heavy wet pigs bladders? 
    Not totally, there's research on how new balls though lighter move a lot faster and do as much and if not more damage because of that 
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    We’ll be alright, we haven’t got anybody who can pass directly to a player from 35m. 
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Who is going to keep count when the said player reaches his target of 10?
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,413
    eaststandmike said:
    Who is going to keep count when the said player reaches his target of 10?
    Roland watching through his private stream

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