Lifelong physical effects of soccer

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Heard there is going to be a post-mortum study of soccer players’ brains similar to what’s been done for American football players to see if lifelong heading and head contact cause CTE. It will probably be many years before they have an answer though given that some of the volunteers are pretty young. By then, you’ll have generations of players where the damage has already been done if they find a link to soccer and CTE.

How do they ever find downhill skiers???

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There are life long " physical effects" in *all* sports. Some much more than others .
Would I let my daughter play Bb with a very high risk of knee injury? No.

So how bad is soccer? I would rate it as high risk as compared to swimming or tennis and loless risky as compared to skiing, field hockey, softball.