re: Serious Q About Soccer Injuries

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One thing that always puzzled me is why the guys are wearing thinner and thinner shoes. The current Nikes look essentially like socks. I realize they want lightweight footwear, but it's not as if the older models are Chuck Taylors, and with the spikes hitting your foot, you'd think the players would want more protection.

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Speed and ball touch.

These were my all time favorite cleats when I played:


Had a pair in blue/white and, yes, the green grass Think they weighed like 6 or 7 oz.

Heading the ball doesn't hurt if you hit it right...may sting a bit but that is all. As mentioned, getting run over or tripped up at a half or full sprint hurts...either scrapes from the ground or falling awkwardly. Can lead to serious injury.

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never once laid on the ground for any amount of time after getting fouled.

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Then you were never really hurt. My worst injury happened in practice as a sophomore in high school. Broken nose, broken cheek bone, broken orbital socket, lost my front right tooth, 14 stitches on my eye brow and a concussion. Practicing corner kicks and took the keepers knee flush to my face.

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I always played with the old school Bauers.

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Bauer? Hockey skates with the blade taken off?

I thought Mitre was US old school...........

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Then you were never really hurt.

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Yes I have been very fortunate in that regard.

My point is that how often when these guys go down like they do and lay there are they "really hurt"? The answer is almost never.

It´s Beckenbauer. I wasn´t trying to correct you, I seriously thought you meant Bauer.

If you are taken off the field in a stretcher you should be off for atleast 5 minutes or subbed. None of this Dani Alves BS where he is taken off and comes back on in 30 seconds and runs like a deer down the right flank.

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I'd also think it's important to note that the match balls these guys play with are far different in material density, stiffness and surface than what you see at Academy. You couldn't pay me to head an $11.99 Target ball, especially in the cold. I'd rather smash my head against a door casing.

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This

I started to get into soccer in my late high school years and early college years. Never played in a league or whatever, but a few of my friends played on the high school team and some in college.

Well, we would go and play pick up games at a park with a bunch of people. And the guys that played in high school or college would bring their nice soccer balls and shite, and the guys that didnt play, like me, had no idea that there was a difference in the type of ball and all that.

Well, this 1 time the guy that usually brought out the soccer balls couldnt make it for some reason. So we went to Academy and bought a handful of their $15 soccer balls and used them during out pickup games the next day. Well, yea it was completely different and hurt like a bitch. Nobody said shite early on because they didnt wanna seem like a bitch or whatever. And none of us knew that there was a big difference. Until I sent in a cross to 1 of my friends that played in high school.... and he just flat out bailed on it. I said "wtf why didnt you go for that?" His response "these balls suck and feel like youre heading a brick compared to the 'real' soccer balls."

So I finally caught on and would only head the ball if it was a soft pass or whatever And shortly after that, someone tried to head in a ball that was coming in hot, hit him square in the face and broke his nose. Needless to say, we never played without a good ball ever again

A good soccer ball will cost you upwards of $125+, depending on which 1 you get. The cheap shitty ones will be like $15. And you can tell a difference.... especially when you try and head that ball :lol:

The exaggeration of injuries is going to get someone seriously hurt someday, like a boy that cried wolf situation. Eventually, teams and the ref are just going to play on if it's over the top and if the guy is really hurt and gets stepped on or something, that could be dangerous.

Like today, Ian Darke implied Uruguay was wasting time with injuries when the player actually almost got knocked out cold.

Teams need to stop playing the ball out when it's obviously a stunt like Colombia/Ivory Coast today. The jackass Colombians booted the ball out for a throw in in the Ivory Coast's own half when Ivory Coast had possession with even numbers close to the edge of the box before the crowd started pressuring them to play it out.

I took a cleat to the funny bone once on a slide tackle. That intense pain/ tingling that last a few minutes lasted 2 weeks and I still have it act up from time to time 20 years later.