UEFA has launched a girls’s well being professional panel with the objective of gaining a deeper understanding of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) accidents and their incidence within the girls’s recreation, European soccer’s governing physique stated on Wednesday.
The panel has begun crafting an ACL damage consciousness questionnaire for all members of the ladies’s soccer group, aiming to assemble insights.
“Addressing the prevalence of ACL accidents in girls’s soccer is essential for the wellbeing of athletes and the development of the game,” UEFA Chief Medical Officer Zoran Bahtijarevic stated.
A number of feminine gamers, together with England’s Leah Williamson and Beth Mead, missed the Girls’s World Cup earlier this yr on account of important accidents.
The initiative will kind the centrepiece of a wider ACL damage consciousness marketing campaign slated to start within the latter half of 2024.