A recent weekend in Georgia saw a significant number of serious soccer injuries. Soccer is definitely a contact sport and the risk of injury very real. Perhaps it’s time for youth referees to start showing the plastic more often.
Entries Tagged ‘injuries’
Dealing With Serious Injuries In Youth Soccer
As a coach, hopefully you never have to deal with a player that has a serious injury, but if you do, there are a number of things you’ll need to deal during their entire recovery.
Concussions in Young Athletes Often Undetected
Derek Poore at the Louisville Courier-Journal has an interesting article out about concussions in youth sports
Concussions and Risk of Youth Sports
A recent post over at The Juggle blog about youth concussions spurred an interesting debate among readers. As coaches and parents, we have to be informed about concussions and what to watch for. The CDC has lots of information that can help.
Lightning And Trees Don’t Mix!
10 people were struck by lightning at a soccer match yesterday. Thankfully it looks like everyone will be OK, though some injuries were serious. The spectators unfortunately took shelter under a tree when the storm came through. I’ve had trees on my property take direct hits by lightning and they’ve had the bark plus large [...]
Out Of Bounds Player and Offside
Anyone watching the Netherlands v Italy match in Euro 2008 saw a Netherland’s goal allowed that seemed to be offside – except there was an Italian defender out of bounds behind the end line. So many wondered if that player factored into any offside decision. The answer is Yes. The question was did he leave [...]
Concussions In Youth Sports
Last year a new concussion testing system was released called Impact. A number of media outlets ran news stories that were quasi advertisements for the new system, but they still highlighted the dangers kids can face from concussions in youth sports:
Doctors have concluded that concussions are especially dangerous for children and teenagers and, as CBS [...]
Youth Soccer = 123,000 ER Visits A Year
Don’t you love sensationalist headlines, even when they’re technically accurate? I could have made it even worse talking about 16 million ER visits … over a 13 year period.
I recently stumbled across an article talking about a recent study of injury rates for youth soccer players and it had some interesting tidbits. [...]
Padded Goal Posts – Sacrilege or Safe Bet?
Soccer goals can present a significant danger to soccer players due to falling goals and collisions. Some are advocating that goal posts be padded nationwide. Is that the best solution? Some research says – maybe.
