Comments on: Cudicini’s accident raises questions on player safety and ‘risk management’ http://soccerlens.com/cudicinis-accident-raises-questions-on-player-safety-and-risk-management/37074/ Football News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:17:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: conor marling http://soccerlens.com/cudicinis-accident-raises-questions-on-player-safety-and-risk-management/37074/#comment-121068 conor marling Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:48:20 +0000 http://soccerlens.com/?p=37074#comment-121068 Arshavins the best in the league !!!!!!!!!!!! cudicini is silly to be riding on that stupid scooter any way! Why are we talking about totterham anyway there rubbish! Arshavins the best in the league !!!!!!!!!!!!

cudicini is silly to be riding on that stupid scooter any way! Why are we talking about totterham anyway there rubbish!

]]> By: lucas http://soccerlens.com/cudicinis-accident-raises-questions-on-player-safety-and-risk-management/37074/#comment-120627 lucas Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:11:33 +0000 http://soccerlens.com/?p=37074#comment-120627 That was Santiago Canizares, and he missed a world cup by doing that, and yes you can go on with footballing injuries that were an everyday occurrence accident like Zat Knight breaking his jaw playfighting with his brother or Robbie Keane puling a hamstring stretching for a TV remote!! However the sentiment of this article is fundamentally sound, these incidents are so notorious not because of the injuries that resulted from them but because of their avoidable nature. If this injury does result in the end of Carlo Cudicinis playing career he will no doubt reflect on a long and illustrious career, but what if he had been 18? I don't refute that people ride motorbikes everyday and the majority dont suffer 'potentially life-changing injuries' as a result, however it also cannot be refuted that in making that choice they are at an increased risk of doing so than if they had chosen a car, especially the high performance cars afforded by those on wages of Premier League footballers. There have been several high profile high speed collisions involving footballers in recent years, Ian Wright, Jermain Pennant and Cristiano Ronaldo being just a few and in each case the six figure car may have suffered 'life-ending injuries' but the individuals concerned didn't even require a trip to their GP. Small sacrifices such as not pursuing space travel, rally driving ect is part of the make-up of being a modern athlete (whether they like it or not, see Kimi Raikkonens current contract demands) adding a prohibition to not ride motorbikes until retirement hardly seems a sacrifice at all, even if it prolongs just one career. That was Santiago Canizares, and he missed a world cup by doing that, and yes you can go on with footballing injuries that were an everyday occurrence accident like Zat Knight breaking his jaw playfighting with his brother or Robbie Keane puling a hamstring stretching for a TV remote!!

However the sentiment of this article is fundamentally sound, these incidents are so notorious not because of the injuries that resulted from them but because of their avoidable nature. If this injury does result in the end of Carlo Cudicinis playing career he will no doubt reflect on a long and illustrious career, but what if he had been 18?

I don’t refute that people ride motorbikes everyday and the majority dont suffer ‘potentially life-changing injuries’ as a result, however it also cannot be refuted that in making that choice they are at an increased risk of doing so than if they had chosen a car, especially the high performance cars afforded by those on wages of Premier League footballers. There have been several high profile high speed collisions involving footballers in recent years, Ian Wright, Jermain Pennant and Cristiano Ronaldo being just a few and in each case the six figure car may have suffered ‘life-ending injuries’ but the individuals concerned didn’t even require a trip to their GP.

Small sacrifices such as not pursuing space travel, rally driving ect is part of the make-up of being a modern athlete (whether they like it or not, see Kimi Raikkonens current contract demands) adding a prohibition to not ride motorbikes until retirement hardly seems a sacrifice at all, even if it prolongs just one career.

]]> By: Gary http://soccerlens.com/cudicinis-accident-raises-questions-on-player-safety-and-risk-management/37074/#comment-120603 Gary Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:21:58 +0000 http://soccerlens.com/?p=37074#comment-120603 Slightly too harsh maybe. Footballers hurt themselves in all sorts of manners, Kirk Broadfoot of Rangers missed the tail end of a season because a poached egg exploded in his face. I forget the name but a player also injured his foot dropping a bottle of aftershave on it. Slightly too harsh maybe.
Footballers hurt themselves in all sorts of manners, Kirk Broadfoot of Rangers missed the tail end of a season because a poached egg exploded in his face. I forget the name but a player also injured his foot dropping a bottle of aftershave on it.

]]> By: Andrea Blackwell http://soccerlens.com/cudicinis-accident-raises-questions-on-player-safety-and-risk-management/37074/#comment-120594 Andrea Blackwell Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:22:20 +0000 http://soccerlens.com/?p=37074#comment-120594 What a load of old tosh - riding a motorbike is no more dangerous than crossing the road. Our sympathies lie with Carlo and we hope he makes a swift and full recovery (from Spurs fans). What a load of old tosh – riding a motorbike is no more dangerous than crossing the road. Our sympathies lie with Carlo and we hope he makes a swift and full recovery (from Spurs fans).

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