Despite a rash of tragic accidents involving unanchored soccer goals in recent years, many organizations still aren’t ensuring the goals are anchored to the ground. An Arizona TV station decided to see just how many are continuing to ignore this important safety issue.
Entries Tagged ‘goal-anchors’
Development of a Safer Soccer Goal
Many readers likely recall the tragic story of Hayden Barnes Ellias, who was killed last year by a falling soccer goal during a team scrimmage. While soccer goal accidents are not very common, a number of children have died from them falling over in the past 30 years or so. The parents of Zachary Tran, [...]
Anchoring The Soccer Goal Anchors
In the five short years our local league has existed, one of the stranger challenges we’ve faced is trying to keep our soccer goals anchored. Soccer goals can tip forward, and can severely injure or even kill players when the crossbar falls to the ground. The worst are the small 6′ x 4′ goals used [...]
Fixing Up Goals Is A Pain In The…
Our league has 32 soccer goals at our complex. Half are little 6′x4′ goals for the U5/U6 teams. The rest vary from 12′ wide to 24′ wide for the older kids. When they were originally put together, lets just say attention to detail was not a factor. The nets were cable tied to the posts [...]
