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Originally Posted by Itse
In short, no. That's not to say there's absolutely no talk or no evidence of it, but I struggle to think of even one well known case. There has been increased discussion and certainly the sport should not let clearly concussed players back on the pitch, which is what mostly happens now. But it does not seem to be a major risk.
In general retired soccer players seem to have much less problems than retired hockey players, but Im not going to claim that's based on anything tangible.
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Thanks for that. One would think that if the effects were as devastating in other sports as they have been in football and hockey this is something we would know more publicly. Wikipedia tells me that a semi-pro player Patrick Grange was diagnosed with CTE in an autopsy. He died at the age of 29 from sever ALS. Both Hilderado Bellini and Pelé were discovered to have CTE after they passed. Bellini suffered from Alzheimer's disease later in life and lived to be 83-years old, but Pelé appears to have lived a highly productive life until the day he died this summer.
Both of these players don't seem to have experienced the sort of rapid and extreme cognitive degradation that is becoming practically epidemic in hockey and football. I think that should tell us something about the higher level of danger extreme physicality in these sports can have.