Actually no, it has nothing to do with the ball... it has to do with the goalie spending so much time on the ground/turf itself. Imagine that a goalie dives onto the turf to continually make saves and gets skin breaks on his/her knees and legs... the carcinogens from the crumble can easily enter the blood stream. Also, I have read reports where goalies end up with the turf in their mouths, in their hair and pretty much all over them by the end of a game. Now maybe the stuff is benign but if not they sure do get a lot of exposure from it... Would you want your child spending hours every week rolling around in old tires?
I am no fan of liberal NBC news, but a broken clock is right twice a day, and this may be one of those times.
Yes, wondered about contact with the surface, too. There sure were a lot of young people mentioned.
I just wondered why they didn’t mention other than goalies - or didn’t emphasize it.
“the carcinogens from the crumble”
Which carcinogens are we talking about here, exactly?