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I've so far seen 3 ambulances at high school soccer games, and one at a football game. (the football player was fine, and back to school the next day, just being SUPER cautious about his neck after a tackle).. the soccer players, 1 concussion, and 2 broken bones.

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It is somewhat common to break bones in soccer, but bones heal. Soccer is not like football. Football is a sport where you’re supposed to run into other people, often head first.

Of course people get hurt in soccer, but that’s out of the ordinary. For football, getting hurt is the ordinary. Most likely people aren’t calling ambulances because getting shaken up and a bit nauseated is par for the course for football.

> Soccer is not like football

True, but soccer is also susceptible to CTE. It is becoming increasingly apparent that soccer, particularly headers and on field collisions, also yields plenty of CTE cases. So much so that some soccer organizations are introducing protocols, such as no headers for youth soccer.

these were already forbidden when my younger brother was playing youth soccer 20 or so years ago in the northeast US.

I think we had an ambulance on-site for all our high-school football games.

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