It was only a couple of days before everything began that Spain lost Alexia Putellas, the game’s finest player, too.
It was only a couple of weeks before the start of the European Championship when Jennifer Hermoso, the country’s most reliable source of cutting edge, was ruled out of the tournament with a knee injury. The end, for Spain, will always lead back to the start. Soccer has always been a sport of air, just as much as earth. It would tilt the balance in favor of those who seeks to destroy, rather than those who try to create. It would reduce the theoretical options available to an attacking team, and in doing so it would make the sport more predictable, more one-dimensional. Removing that - either by edict or by lost habit - would have the effect of removing possibility from the game. Soccer is defined, still, by all the crosses that do not come. They cannot discount it, so they have to behave in such a way as to counteract it.
Players may not head the ball as much as they used to, now, but they know they might have to head the ball just as much as their predecessors from a less civilized era. Those changes, in the sense of soccer as a sporting spectacle, are unlikely to be positive.
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It is not just that the way corners and free kicks are defended would be changed beyond recognition - no more crowding as many bodies as possible in or near the box - but the way that fullbacks deal with wide players, the positions that defensive lines take on the field, the whole structure of the game. The same would be true of a soccer devoid of heading. The sport as a whole has followed in their wake, hewing ever more closely to Brian Clough’s rather gnarled maxim that if God had intended soccer to be played in the clouds, there would be substantially more grass up there. They dominate possession or they launch precise, surgical counterattacks, and they prefer to do the vast majority of it on the ground. Sophisticated teams, now, do their best not to cross the ball they most certainly do not heave it forward at any given opportunity. The percentage of headed goals is falling, thanks to the simultaneous rise in analytics - which, speaking extremely broadly, discourages (aerial) crossing as a low-probability action - and the stylistic hegemony of the school of Pep Guardiola. The game appears, after all, to be moving beyond it organically. In a sporting sense, too, it is easy to believe that heading’s demise would be no great loss.
when he died in December at 33, but that diagnosis alone does not capture the role football had in the N.F.L.
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professional soccer player with a public case of C.T.E., as concussion fears rise in the sport.
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