– With all the concern about potential brain injury and sport team liability, it seems like soccer/football ‘headers’ would concern people more. Why isn’t this practice frowned upon at a professional level?

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– With all the concern about potential brain injury and sport team liability, it seems like soccer/football ‘headers’ would concern people more. Why isn’t this practice frowned upon at a professional level?

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Answer 1

In the UK a group of ex footballers are looking to take legal action – [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63594737](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63594737)

There will be arguments that improvements have already been made. Heading is somewhat less integral than it was back then, and the balls are lighter. There are also supposed to be more rigorous head injury protocols – but those have already been pretty much ignored twice already in the world cup – which should be the flagship.