Soccer Will Run Trials of Concussion Substitutes - 2 minutes read
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In Russia four years later, Morocco’s Noureddine Amrabat made headlines when he was cleared to play in a World Cup group-stage game only five days after he had lost consciousness in his team’s previous game. Morocco’s manager at the time, Hervé Renard, described Amrabat as a “warrior.”
More recently, the former Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen told a Belgian broadcaster that he had played with the effects of a concussion for months after an injury in a 2019 Champions League semifinal. But he said the pressure to perform in the final year of his contract, and to keep his place in Tottenham’s lineup, led him to push aside his serious concerns.
“I still had a year left on my contract, so I had to play, but when I played, I played badly,” Vertonghen told Belgium’s Sporza TV, adding: “I should not have continued playing; it affected me in total for nine months and that’s why I couldn’t bring what I wanted to on the field.”
Source: New York Times
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