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The International Football Association Board
had been urged by the Premier League to trial a temporary
substitution to allow players with head injuries to be assessed.
IFAB will instead continue with permanent substitutes which FIFA
president declared the "risk free" approach but according to
Headway Chief Executive Luke Griggs they are in danger of
'losing credibility' in the area of brain health.
"FIFA president Gianni Infantino claims football is 'making
player health the main priority' by extending the trial of
permanent substitutes," Griggs said in a statement.
"But this system has repeatedly failed to protect players as it
relies on either medics making an immediate judgement or for a
player to risk exacerbating their brain injury by playing on for
10 to 15 minutes to see how they get on.
"FIFA's claim that the current system represents a 'zero risk'
approach is not supported by the repeated failures to take an
'if in doubt, sit it out!' approach to concussion.!"
The permanent concussion substitutes rule was introduced in the
Premier League at the start of 2021 and means that a team can
replace a player with a suspected head injury without it
counting towards their allocation of substitutes.
(Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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