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The opinion of the coroner came to confirm the shared secret addiction to painkillers in the 28 year old athlete, who fatally combined with alcohol.

Seven months later, «Times» New York put in a prominent place a series of tributes to the life and career Bougkaarnt unjustly shed, but one that has the greatest value to the world of sport are the voices of dozens of researchers, university professors and accredited physicians that the real cause of death was the degeneration of the brain from multiple blows he had received over the ice.

Concern about the consequences of violent sports on athletes' health is not new matter, and the compromise of athletes or hockey or boxing or similar barbarity sports with serious health problems, even death, has reached tens of times even in big screen. Now, new research has come to fear more from the most popular sports in the world of football.

Heads, say U.S. scientists, seriously damage the brain and can have terrible consequences for the health professionals tend to use your head to ward off the ball or to score spectacular goals. The question we were asked by the researchers of the Medical Faculty of the College "Albert Einstein" in New York was simple.

What happens inside the skull of a player who constantly makes headers? The answer, which was given to the public in the recent World Congress of the Radiological Society of North America, unfortunately, is alarming. The sample of adults who entered the football pitches from childhood possible age and continued to engage in headers for many years presented a significant loss of white matter in parts of the brain associated with memory, attention and visual processing ability.

Almost trembling with the researchers found that people who took part in the investigation and had found with his head the ball more than 1,100 times within 12 months had a loss of white matter, ie that which serves as communication cable in the brain similar to that seen in those who have suffered injury as a severe concussion.

The results shook the football community, which for many decades trying to forget the hints of doctors that the headers may have unpleasant consequences for athletes. Surveys in the early 90s that showed gaps in memory veterans Scandinavian players were thrown in the bin on the pretext that those who were not conducted on account of his love of football players for alcohol!

Maybe the football industry that supports this earnings billion U.S. dollars and try to forget and this research. Besides, the news did not pass either the small newspaper in Europe or Latin America, those who say crazy for headers and enrich them.

"What should we tell the Americans about soccer? 'Will be the key argument to emerge and new research discredited. The question, however, is whether ultimately the gold that falls at the feet of professionals worthy enough to play literally the head ...