Many sports come with protective clothing to make sure the players are well protected against injuries and especially to protect their head. For example, cyclists use helmets and nowadays there is a big promotion to wear helmets on the mountains (‘Echte Profis tragen Helm’) with skiing and snowboarding.
However, the last time we are witness of some unfortunate head injuries in football. We have seen Petr Cech, Maarten Stekelenburg, Przemyslw Tyton and yesterday Chris Smalling (after a collision with Klaas-Jan Huntelaar) suffering a head injury.
Recent research has indicated that football players heading many balls, suffer more from brain trauma than normal people do. In addition, a large amount of football keepers have been part of a collision lately and suffer brain damage of this. Therefore, we think football keepers should be obliged to wear head protection.
