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A soccer player on the field, holding their head in pain, symbolizing the sport's growing brain damage crisis and inadequate safety measures.
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Soccer's Brain Damage Crisis: Player Safety Protocols Lag Far Behind 2026.

A senior coroner recently declared that repeatedly heading footballs was 'likely' to have contributed to the brain disease that factored in the death of former footballer Gordon McQueen, a ruling that

Sofia Castillo·September 20, 2026