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2. Is it time for soccer/football players to wear helmets like American footballers?

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2019, 08:49 AM

Oct 2019

Maybe more like hockey player helmets rather than the full-head helmets of American football—just big enough to absorb the energy of the soccer ball hitting the head when attempting to head the ball.

Of note: It wasn't until the '70s that hockey players started wearing them. Goalies, sensibly, started it before the rest of the players began wearing them.

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