Sentences with phrase «soccer goalposts»
Never the gentlest of sports, football is now coming in for a new type of criticism: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that falling soccer goalposts killed 18 people in the US and wounded nine between 1979 and 1983.
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Officially, there was not a single beach soccer pitch in the country, not even standard sized FIFA beach soccer goalposts, and not a single qualified beach soccer referee.
Not exact matches
Jeff Skeen of Full90 Sports talks about and the role of protective headgear in reducing the risk of concussion and the difference between concussions, which occur as a result of contact between a player's head and a hard object (another player's head, the ground or the goalpost), and the kinds of brain injuries which can occur as a result of repeated heading of a soccer ball.
Chances are, if you have watched more than a few youth soccer games, you have seen a player injured in a collision with the goalpost.
Schieber says researchers have not examined whether goalposts from other sports also fall on athletes; they studied soccer deaths after a spate of such incidents in the Atlanta area, where the CDC's headquarters are based.