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New research that soccer players are at risk of brain injury, especially who head the ball a lot. Researchers in America carried out tests on 38 amateur football players over the of 30 who had played the sport childhood. Doctors gave them MRI brain scans and tests to their brain function. The players were asked to the number of times they had headed a ball in the past year. The research findings indicate a of brain injury not usually in people who do not play soccer. Doctors reported the condition to be a of concussion known as mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). This can easily occur in soccer due to the frequent impact of the head with a ball that can travel at speeds to 100 kph.

Lead Doctor Michael Lipton explained the heading a ball can have on the brain: “Heading a soccer ball is not an of a magnitude that will [cut] nerve fibers in the brain, but repetitive may set off a cascade of responses that can to a degeneration of brain cells." He added: “Brain injury and cognitive impairment can from heading a soccer ball with frequency….These are findings that should be taken into consideration in planning future research to approaches to protect soccer players." Doctor Lipton concluded it would be difficult to brain injury in children as it takes years of heading a ball for the to show up in brain scans.