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Chelsea Boss Frank Lampard Calls For Tougher Rules On Heading At Youth Football Level And Says Any Potential Guidelines For Professional Clubs Would Need To Be Adopted.
Robertobinna733 years ago
Frank Lampard has revealed he is considering adapting Chelsea’s training over concerns with the number of former footballers developing dementia.
Nobby Stiles passed away last month, following Jack Charlton, Martin Peters and Ray Wilson as England 1966 Word Cup heroes to have died after suffering from the same illness, while Jack Charlton's brother Sir Bobby Charlton has also recently been diagnosed with dementia.
Another England World Cup winner, Sir Geoff Hurst, has spoken about how he thinks children should be banned from heading the ball while playing football. Lampard is in favour of tougher rules in youth football and believes a similar approach could be adopted at the professional level, as long as it was universally agreed and adhered to.
Reflecting on the issue at his news conference on Thursday, the Chelsea boss said: "The rules need to be stronger to make sure we're not making younger children head it if they don't need to. In the development game, that's more than possible.
"We have to start with youth football. When children are developing, we can control the levels of training. Anything we can do to make things safer, we should.
"I think we can work up the pyramid. Already, I'm certainly considering it in terms of how we train here because of the seriousness of the issue.
"At the professional level, the small gains are huge and we need to make sure we're working under the same guidelines and trust each other that we are.
"At the moment, there are no guidelines. It has to be something that goes across the board."
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