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Football: FAS and academies impose ban on heading during training for those under 12
FAS and academies ban heading in training for primary school pupils to enhance safety
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The ActiveSG Football Academy (pictured) could follow suit after the Football Association of Singapore and several academies here decided to emulate the English FA's decision to ban heading in training for pre-teens.
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
Young footballers aged 12 and under here will no longer do heading exercises during training, as the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) and several local academies will follow the decision of the English, Scottish and Northern Irish Football Associations (FAs) to outlaw heading for pre-teens.
Two weeks ago, the English FA announced its new heading guidelines following a study of former professionals, which showed that they were 3½ times more likely to suffer from dementia and other serious neurological diseases.
