Just one season of playing football—even without a concussion—can cause brain damage. But for neuroscience researchers, those sounds can signal something much darker: brain damage. Now, a new study shows playing just one season of college football can harm a player's brain, even if they don't receive a concussion.
Football, basketball and wrestling
most dangerous sports for 15 to 24 year olds. Hockey, snowboarding and water tubing
most common
sports for concussions.
Most dangerous sports with the highest rate of injury.
| Sport | Rate of injury |
|---|
| Football | 1.78% |
| Basketball | 0.98% |
| Wrestling | 0.90% |
| Skateboarding | 0.66% |
Some of the most dangerous football positions include:
- Center.
- Offensive guard.
- Offensive tackle.
- Running back.
- Linebacker.
- Quarterback.
Every football team has dangerous players and huge scoring threats in front of goal.
- Radamel Falcao. 11 of 11.
- Robert Lewandowski. 10 of 11.
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic. 9 of 11.
- Edinson Cavani. 8 of 11.
- Robin Van Persie.
- Luis Suarez.
- Sergio Aguero.
- Mario Mandzukic.
The best time for a child to start playing football is between the ages of 3 and 5 years old. The easiest and most convenient way to teach them skills in football is to play the game at home with your child.
Youth football provides mental and physical benefits to kids through physical activity. Such physical benefits include strength, cardiovascular endurance, and flexibility. Some mental benefits include boosting self-esteem, problem-solving, and leadership.
But football is a contact sport, so injuries do happen. Doctors and scientists are studying how repeatedly hitting the head during tackling affects the brain. These injuries can cause serious brain problems later in life. Recent changes in training techniques and rules may help lower the risk of brain injury.
More importantly, it teaches life lessons. Kids learn discipline, hard work and teamwork when they play football. For a lot of children, football provides an incentive to do well in school or behave; it gives them an activity to keep them occupied. Football should always be available to kids of all ages.
Is it going to give me CTE? One concussion in the absence of other brain trauma has never been seen to cause CTE. The best evidence available today suggests that while in theory CTE could begin after one brain injury, if it does, it is rare.
Here's a look at some of the pros and cons of allowing them on the field:
- Pro: Playing football can help kids stay in shape.
- Con: Football players are at high risk for concussions.
- Pro: Kids who play sports do better in school.
- Con: Injuries can have long-lasting effects.
Participation in American football also carries the risk of injuries besides concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, including catastrophic injuries—those that result in death or permanent neurologic damage—the rates of which are higher in American football than most other team sports [28-38].
It's another to encourage a child into a sport they loathe. “If the kid is having a good time, if it's fun, they're going to want to continue doing it, and the more they do it the more they will gain the benefits,” Taylor says. “It becomes self-reinforcing.”
In the last two years, some researchers have shown that head hits in youth sports increase the risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, an untreatable degenerative brain disease with symptoms ranging from memory loss to progressive dementia.
Most professional player starts at very young age (5–7 years old), and it's very hard to start becoming professional at 14. That said, if you're very talented, there's a small possibility that you could become professional at your age, but it wouldn't be an easy task.
No it is not too late. 15 is still a young age so you can still develop and get better at the position that you are playing. My best bet would be for you to play for clubs near or in areas where there is a professional or 2nd division soccer team that plays.
It is never too late, if you Train with your atmost dedication and with good coaches you can become a pro footballer very soon. You are just 17 right now, the next 5 years are very important, work hard,train hard, eat well, sleep well and exercise well.
AGE-WEIGHT DIVISIONS:
| Age/Weight Division | Age(s) | Certification Weight |
|---|
| MITEY-MITE | 7-8-9 | 45-100 lbs. |
| JR. PEE WEE (older/lighter) | 8-9-10 11* | 60-115 lbs. 60-95 lbs. |
| PEE WEE (older/lighter) | 9-10-11 12* | 75-130 lbs. 75-110 lbs. |
| JR. VARSITY (older/lighter) | 10-11-12 13* | 90-155 lbs. 90-135 lbs. |
13 is a perfect age to start playing and learning football. It is players from this age group that all District level sports organisations in India (at least in Bengal) look for. You don't even have to worry about not knowing anything or being a football 'illiterate' in the camps organised by these organisations.
Study Details on flag football and tackle footballHis focus of interest is sports injuries in youth football leagues, and he has received a 2016 pilot grant from UI IPRC for studies in that domain. According to the information he provides, flag players have the highest rates of injuries (more so than tackle players).
Simply put, there isn't a standard time for when it's too late to become a professional player in the soccer world. However, considering that soccer is a sport that requires one to develop through different stages, it's, generally, too late to become a professional player when you're past 23 years old.
