Headless football (L’Équipe explores): Éric Carrière presents his brain to science for unprecedented study (VIDEO)

Headless football (L’Équipe explores): Éric Carrière presents his brain to science for unprecedented study (VIDEO)

On Thursday, November 10, L’Équipe is broadcasting “Un football sans tête”, a documentary on its platform that evokes the possible risks of repeated heads. On this occasion, former French international Éric Carrière, a professional actor between 1992 and 2010, let science analyze his brain.

This is a question that is increasingly coming to the fore in the world of sports: What if a headshot is dangerous to the health of football players? Just last April, a French study led by Doctor Hélène Cassoudesale Professor Patrick Dehail of the University Hospital of Bordeaux found that repeated head exercises can have consequences on the functioning of the athletes’ brains.

To go further, Professor Stéphane Kremer, at the Hautepierre hospital in Strasbourg, has launched a new study that has never been done before in the world, as the neurologist explains in the documentary. headless footballavailable on the platform The team is investigating From Thursday, November 10:There is data in the literature suggesting that repeated head strokes can induce brain morphological changes. Our goal was to check if we could highlight any abnormalities on MRI or at the neuro-psychological level at the end of a career as a professional football player and just to see what the potential role of repeated headshots was.

Thus, Stéphane Kremer and his team will analyze the brains of 45 former professional players. Among them are ex-French international player Éric Carrière (10 picks), notably overtaken by Nantes, OL or RC Lens. Former advisor with a total of 527 professional matches Channel+ throughout his career, he had the opportunity to bring heads together. The now 49-year-old explains The team is investigating According to him, the importance of this study is:We do not ask these questions. We have to do it, we do. It’s true that sometimes you can get a little headache…“, before sharing his personal experience, describes the person playing in the midfield position as follows: “When Guy Roux came to Racing Club de Lens (editor’s note in 2007), he felt we didn’t have a very good head game. He did many exercises for us in this recording. Each time I did sessions that were a little more challenging, with balls that had to be placed 30 meters apart, and where you had to chain heads, I felt that the session wasn’t very helpful.

Heading is prohibited in junior categories in countries such as the United States, England, Ireland or Scotland. While the top authorities of world football are quite wary of this, Éric Carrière hopes that this work will make the discussion less taboo on the subject:I guess very few people asked for information. But at least if we know the destination is the problem… We either go on purpose or adapt the app to be less problematic. That’s why I’m here for a reason. If we have the information, the person hiding it is in trouble. I guess for several years, there was no desire to have. We’re getting there. Of course, we always take the responsibility, “if they can’t find much anyway! “.

Headless football: in L’Équipe expeditions from 12:00 on Thursday, 10 November

Benoit Lesueur

Source: Programme Television

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