But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.
Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.
But now there are more concussions due to not being used to the hard hitting.
Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you.
As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.
Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.
We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the changes were because of injuries. But that's where I give a lot of credit to the group in terms of being able to maintain things.
When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.
You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.
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