The FA has said that it will implement new guidelines that will restrict the amount of heading by under 18 players in training.
These new policies are yet to be fully finalised, and will not fully ban heading for under 18s, just limit it in certain situations.
A study, commissioned by the FA and conducted by Glasgow University, found former professional footballers were three and a half times more likely to die of diseases such as dementia than people of other people the same age in different industries.
A few months after the researchers findings were released, the FA’s head of medicine Charlotte Cowie said: “The FA’s independently chaired research taskforce has instigated a review of possible changes to heading coaching and training at all levels to decrease overall exposure to heading without compromising technique. It is imperative that football now does everything it can to further understand what caused this increased risk and what can be done to ensure that future generations of footballers are protected.”
A ban on children heading the ball has been in place in the US since 2015.
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