My ten years old got into soccer recently and he’s getting good at it, except, he has this paranoia that he’ll get blind (or will have severe eye damage) if he traces the ball through the air against a sunny backdrop. Because of this he won’t practice in the evening and this is when most training happens.
We had an eclipse recently and I think he took the “don’t look at the sun” mantra way too far and I don’t know how to undo that.
Please help!!!
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I played soccer from 4 years old, through college, and still play on a men’s team now at 37 years old. I have 20/15 vision (better than normal). Glancing at the ball as it moves through the sun is not a problem at all, worst case scenario and the ball is punted so far up in the air it gets lost in the sun for 2-3 seconds (impossible at his age, kids can’t kick that hard) and you’ll see the ball in the sky after it gets far enough away from the sun.
If he is sitting there staring straight at the sun for multiple seconds in a row, he isn’t playing soccer.
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