The cases that became famous in the NFL would be causing problems in football.
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Futbolred Editorial
01 May 2024, 06:16 p.m. m.
In the United States, cases of deaths of athletes, specifically in the NFL, related to brain problems resulting from the violent collisions they suffered during the exercise of their profession, recently became famous.
Deaths from Alzheimer’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), dementia, depression, aggression and suicide were reported among more than 20,000 former National Football League players, a famous negotiation that cost more than a billion dollars in 2017. .
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That seems to be the path now followed by other athletes, specifically British footballers, who have met and filed 35 complaints for what they consider ‘negligence’ on the part of the Premier League to address health problems possibly generated by brain injuries.
The athletes sued the English Federation, the Welsh Federation, the English Football League, which deals with the Second to Fourth divisions, and the IFAB, which is in charge of designing the rules of football. The reason is an alleged negligence when it comes to protecting footballers from illnesses caused by hitting the ball with their head.
During the time that this litigation has lasted, six plaintiffs died, including Joe Kiennar, last April, who was a Tottenham Hotspur legend, Irish coach and coach of Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United, who died from vascular dementia.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs have presented 8,000 pages of medical records as evidence and have said the players have had to live with irreversible neurological injuries, including dementia, chronic traumatic encelopathy, post-concussion syndrome, epilepsy, Parkinson’s and Parkinson’s disease. motor neuron.
Richard Boardman, the prosecution’s attorney, hopes there will be a trial date, although he acknowledges that “the defendants are trying to drag out the process.”
2024-05-01 23:18:58
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