By, Brenda Villa
Time ticking on the clock. You’re on the field and you’re about to score. Suddenly you feel a pain. You ignore it, until the pain comes stronger, you lost your chance of a goal. You get out but you want to keep playing. Then a couple of minutes later you have just realized you’re injured. Your coach helps you out but you know you want to keep playing. Although, sometimes it might take days, weeks, months, possibly even years to recover. These small injuries can really affect the health of a soccer athlete.
Soccer is one of the most common sport played indoor and outdoor. Sometimes an athlete can get injured by playing a sport they love. Such as soccer. The most common injuries while playing soccer might be grain pulls, tighs, calf muscle strains. Shin splints which is soreness in the calf. Patellar tendinitis pain in the knee and achilles tendinitis which is pain in the back of the ankle. These injuries can affect the soccer played health in many ways.
According to what the person said, “If you get hit in the head with a soccer ball it can mess up your cognitive function.” This other person also said, “You being hurt in a game could hurt you physically, but also mentally because you are scared of being hurt again.” This is very true, because soccer is a sport where you can use your head to hit the ball. This can really affect a soccer player health because basically a cognitive function is cerebral activities including memory, attention, language, and knowledge.
Also about 52.6% of the people have said that they have gotten injured in soccer and any sport in general.
We can fix this problem by making the sport soccer more safer. About 42.1% of the people said that soccer should be a more safer sport. Which is not the majority. Although we can make soccer a safer sport by changing the way the rules. Instead of 2v1 we can make it where only 1v1 so people can get injured by taking the ball away by two people at the same time. RIsking you to get hit in the leg and leading to a knee, ankle, or any other problem.
We can wear more protective gear. About 47.4% of people said that we need more gear to protect ourself more. Which is good because this can help us not get injured and keep our health good and healthy. So we can change a lot of things to make the soccer sport more enjoyable and safe.
Sources:
http://www.cereboost.com/cognitive-function/
Stopsportsinjuries.org
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