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The English FA will soon begin a study...
Nov 24, 2017
The English FA will soon begin a study, on the link between dementia and heading a football.
This after former England striker Jeff Astle died in 2002 at age 59.
Doctors said that repeatedly heading heavy leather footballs had contributed to trauma to his brain.
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