Injuries in Young Players

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Interesting article on the prevalence of injuries in young players with Liverpool and the reasons for it as they step up to the first team. I know in my own club there is a massive increase in longterm injuries in young players coming into the senior squad  compared to when i started about 20 years ago and the increased training intensity must be part of it, particularly when you consider the typical club player is not going to have access to the level of monitoring

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2024/01/liverpools-mystery-injuries-explained-bajcetic-doak-gordon-and-more/

[intheknowhow]

Interesting article on the prevalence of injuries in young players with Liverpool and the reasons for it as they step up to the first team. I know in my own club there is a massive increase in longterm injuries in young players coming into the senior squad  compared to when i started about 20 years ago and the increased training intensity must be part of it, particularly when you consider the typical club player is not going to have access to the level of monitoring

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2024/01/liverpools-mystery-injuries-explained-bajcetic-doak-gordon-and-more/

20 years ago training was running and hard running and more running with drills ....

[TabClear]

Interesting article on the prevalence of injuries in young players with Liverpool and the reasons for it as they step up to the first team. I know in my own club there is a massive increase in longterm injuries in young players coming into the senior squad  compared to when i started about 20 years ago and the increased training intensity must be part of it, particularly when you consider the typical club player is not going to have access to the level of monitoring

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2024/01/liverpools-mystery-injuries-explained-bajcetic-doak-gordon-and-more/

20 years ago training was running and hard running and more running with drills ....

Absolutely agree. There is no doubt players now are on a different level fitness and strength wise. However, this definitely seems to be coming at the cost of players picking up more injuries and the article seems to give some indication of why this happpens. Not sure there is any solution if one of the best resourcesd sports clubs in the world is experiencing the same issues.

[Milltown Row2]

There are a few things different from back in the day..

Pitches are harder
Shoes are different
Training in the gym
Kids are made of paper
Every injury now requires surgery!!
Players know about, hamstrings and metatarsals and ligaments (was a sore leg in my day)
Players are bigger
Diet plans

Few other factors as to why we have these injuries I'm sure..

The enjoyment I'm sure is still there but, seems like hard work in comparison to the, hill runs during the week preseasons and the drills with the ball at the weekend

[Ethan Tremblay]

There are a few things different from back in the day..

Pitches are harder
Shoes are different
Training in the gym
Kids are made of paper
Every injury now requires surgery!!
Players know about, hamstrings and metatarsals and ligaments (was a sore leg in my day)
Players are bigger
Diet plans

Few other factors as to why we have these injuries I'm sure..

The enjoyment I'm sure is still there but, seems like hard work in comparison to the, hill runs during the week preseasons and the drills with the ball at the weekend

Aye exactly this.  I find the young guys coming from our minor team to the senior team are all specialists in complicated injuries and are getting told they need surgery etc. 

There are no more "sore legs" its all hamstring tendinopathy this and osteitis pubis that. 

I think parents have a lot of input here putting it in their heads they are 'injured', rather than just sore. 

[Armagh18]

There are a few things different from back in the day..

Pitches are harder
Shoes are different
Training in the gym
Kids are made of paper
Every injury now requires surgery!!
Players know about, hamstrings and metatarsals and ligaments (was a sore leg in my day)
Players are bigger
Diet plans

Few other factors as to why we have these injuries I'm sure..

The enjoyment I'm sure is still there but, seems like hard work in comparison to the, hill runs during the week preseasons and the drills with the ball at the weekend

Aye exactly this.  I find the young guys coming from our minor team to the senior team are all specialists in complicated injuries and are getting told they need surgery etc. 

There are no more "sore legs" its all hamstring tendinopathy this and osteitis pubis that. 

I think parents have a lot of input here putting it in their heads they are 'injured', rather than just sore. 

Yeah obviously theres going to be genuine cases of muscles going and stuff but I'd say a fair amount of the time players need to man the f**k up and play through a bit of discomfort.

[Milltown Row2]

There are a few things different from back in the day..

Pitches are harder
Shoes are different
Training in the gym
Kids are made of paper
Every injury now requires surgery!!
Players know about, hamstrings and metatarsals and ligaments (was a sore leg in my day)
Players are bigger
Diet plans

Few other factors as to why we have these injuries I'm sure..

The enjoyment I'm sure is still there but, seems like hard work in comparison to the, hill runs during the week preseasons and the drills with the ball at the weekend

Aye exactly this.  I find the young guys coming from our minor team to the senior team are all specialists in complicated injuries and are getting told they need surgery etc. 

There are no more "sore legs" its all hamstring tendinopathy this and osteitis pubis that. 

I think parents have a lot of input here putting it in their heads they are 'injured', rather than just sore. 

Internet!! Social media and all that other crap will feed that info.

The magic words when I was playing/managing and a player went down holding his leg or something, going to take ya off lad... Bounced up like a bunny rabbit and away he went!

Now lads are looking for the physio, their own bottled water, magic spray and a rub, followed by can you name the months backwards from the physio!!

Heard that one last year, while standing beside a player! None of the players standing there could do it!

[brokencrossbar1]

There are a few things different from back in the day..

Pitches are harder
Shoes are different
Training in the gym
Kids are made of paper
Every injury now requires surgery!!
Players know about, hamstrings and metatarsals and ligaments (was a sore leg in my day)
Players are bigger
Diet plans

Few other factors as to why we have these injuries I'm sure..

The enjoyment I'm sure is still there but, seems like hard work in comparison to the, hill runs during the week preseasons and the drills with the ball at the weekend

Aye exactly this.  I find the young guys coming from our minor team to the senior team are all specialists in complicated injuries and are getting told they need surgery etc. 

There are no more "sore legs" its all hamstring tendinopathy this and osteitis pubis that. 

I think parents have a lot of input here putting it in their heads they are 'injured', rather than just sore. 

Yeah obviously theres going to be genuine cases of muscles going and stuff but I'd say a fair amount of the time players need to man the f**k up and play through a bit of discomfort.

Not allowed to say 'man up'. Get with the program!!!

While players now have greater conditioning opportunities etc I would question that they are any 'stronger' than we were 25 years ago. Could maybe bench press more but genuinely question their core strength. As for fitness,  I've trained teams the way we trained when I was playing and they could not do it. Simple as that

[Milltown Row2]

Because they are soft.. Falls park running up hills in the snow with someone on yer back!!

I used to fight with myself all the way over in my car, just don't go! Tuesdays Thursday, vomit!

[TabClear]

There are a few things different from back in the day..

Pitches are harder
Shoes are different
Training in the gym
Kids are made of paper
Every injury now requires surgery!!
Players know about, hamstrings and metatarsals and ligaments (was a sore leg in my day)
Players are bigger
Diet plans

Few other factors as to why we have these injuries I'm sure..

The enjoyment I'm sure is still there but, seems like hard work in comparison to the, hill runs during the week preseasons and the drills with the ball at the weekend

Aye exactly this.  I find the young guys coming from our minor team to the senior team are all specialists in complicated injuries and are getting told they need surgery etc. 

There are no more "sore legs" its all hamstring tendinopathy this and osteitis pubis that. 

I think parents have a lot of input here putting it in their heads they are 'injured', rather than just sore. 

Yeah obviously theres going to be genuine cases of muscles going and stuff but I'd say a fair amount of the time players need to man the f**k up and play through a bit of discomfort.

Not allowed to say 'man up'. Get with the program!!!

While players now have greater conditioning opportunities etc I would question that they are any 'stronger' than we were 25 years ago. Could maybe bench press more but genuinely question their core strength. As for fitness,  I've trained teams the way we trained when I was playing and they could not do it. Simple as that

Agree with that. Not questioning that players are fitter now but it was a different gig. No floodlights, about 8 traffic cones with the emergency lights on top of them at various points on the pitch and not a ball in sight for midweek training until about march.

To be fair, most players turned up in Jan needing to lose about 2 stone which is not the case now but it was brutal going!

[Ethan Tremblay]

Because they are soft.. Falls park running up hills in the snow with someone on yer back!!

I used to fight with myself all the way over in my car, just don't go! Tuesdays Thursday, vomit!

Brilliant! Preseason every year I remember thinking during training's that i'll see this training out then that's me done.  Every session I was jacking it in. 

[general_lee]

Some amount of boomers revealing themselves... young players probably doing a lot more training nowadays with no much recovery in between.

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I agree they need to person up FFS!!

[Armagh18]

Some amount of boomers revealing themselves... young players probably doing a lot more training nowadays with no much recovery in between.

That too. Like i said, theres a difference in genuinely picking up an injury and needing to "person" up and play through that wee bit of pain everyone gets.

Not sure about anyone else but when I was 16/17/18 we would have trained twice a week with seniors, played senior game, minor game and trained once or twice with minors as well. 

[brokencrossbar1]

Some amount of boomers revealing themselves... young players probably doing a lot more training nowadays with no much recovery in between.

That too. Like i said, theres a difference in genuinely picking up an injury and needing to "person" up and play through that wee bit of pain everyone gets.

Not sure about anyone else but when I was 16/17/18 we would have trained twice a week with seniors, played senior game, minor game and trained once or twice with minors as well. 

Throw in school games on top of that.

I genuinely trained Tuesday Thursday Friday and then at the weekend from start of 1996 until October 2000 with basically no break (2 months around end of 1997 was the height of it). Also 2 gym sessions as well. Got plenty of success but it was intense