Former players and activists reacted to the incident and called for the advent of transitional substitutions in cases where a player is suspected of having suffered a concussion.
The crash occurred in the first part of the attack at Emirates Stadium in north London and resulted in a 10-minute stoppage, Jimenez, who deteriorated, receiving oxygen in the field before being stretched and taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
Jimenez suffered skull damage, but Wolves issued a statement monday, saying: “Raul is comfortable after an operation last night, which he had at a London hospital. Since then he has noticed his wife Daniela and is now resting. He’ll stay underneath for a few days as he begins his convalescence.
The wolves continued to thank Arsenal and the National Health Service physician who cared for the player.
The discussion that followed, however, focused on the resolution of Arsenal club doctors to allow David Luiz to continue playing after receiving the blow to the head that Luiz assessed before returning to the area with blood coming out through a bandage on his head, but eventually got rid of it at half-time.
Arsenal said the protocol had been followed very well, questions were raised about the suitability of the recently implemented protocol.
Headway’s head injury deal issued a statement about the incident, expressing his “anger and sadness at football’s continued failure to protect its players from concussions. “
The organization’s deputy director general, Luke Griggs, has called for the advent of transitional substitutions to give doctors more time to evaluate players who have suffered a blow to the head, as is the case in rugby.
Griggs said: “Also in football we see that players return to the court after being subjected to a concussion evaluation only to be taken out a few minutes later when it is transparent that they have no compatibility to continue.
“That’s the real explanation for why we urgently want transitional substitutes in football. You just run dangers with head injuries. Another blow to the head on the occasion of a concussion can have serious consequences. “
“The question you want to ask is: if the concussion replacement rule had been in force, would Luiz have been allowed to return to the game box?Would this extra time in the remedy room have led to another decision?
“The concussion protocol obviously states that” . . . any suspected concussion must be promptly removed from the game, while the game continues to promote an “if in doubt, rest” technique for head injuries.
“On the other hand, we see that this rhetoric does not manifest itself through movements on the ground. Something’s not right. Let this continue. How many announcements does football need?”
While the framework governing football laws, IFAB, has been discussing testing a replacement for subsequent permanent substitutions in the event of a concussion, since the start of the 2020-2021 season, has been criticized for procrastinating and not taking into account. counts the alternative of transitority.
In the BBC’s Fit Highlights programme, Premier League record striker Alan Shearer expressed an opinion to Griggs about the advent of transitional substitutions, saying it is a matter of “life and death. “
“Football will have to be real; he has to wake up,” Shearer said. “You’ll have to get serious, not next year, not next month, not next week, now. This has been going on for too long, football protocols are not acceptable. We’re talking about a player’s well-being. Cricket does, the NFL does, rugby and rugby league have higher protocols. We’re talking about life and death, about the players’ career. “
Former Tottenham Hotspur and Hull City gamer Ryan Mason, whose career was interrupted by a head injury at the age of 26, also spoke of the subject. “I was quite disappointed to see something like that on a football field, it’s very disturbing,” Mason told talkSPORT.
“It is a disgrace that my incident did not reposition perception; What will it take for other people to start knowing that this is serious about Array?I’ll be honest, I was surprised david Luiz was allowed to play. criticizing arsenal’s doctor because there’s a protocol in place and I’m sure he followed it.
“But this existing protocol in position is not enough; it’s not enough to have two or three minutes, it’s not enough. It was bad; the noise, the impact, the speed of the challenge too — it was bad. The fact that there are no enthusiasts and that you can hear the point of contact did not help . . . This existing protocol that we have in position is not correct and is dangerous ».
On Monday, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola added his voice to the chorus, supporting the concept of transitority substitutions and saying that the concept of the existing protocol was not transparent enough.
This discussion around the concussion protocol is part of a broader debate about the traumatic effects that a football career, and in composnicular repetition football, can have on players’ brains. population dies of dementia.
I write about a variety of topics, but I specialize in English, European and South American football. For Forbes, I write basically about two groups in my hometown, Tottenham.
I write about a variety of topics, but I specialize in English, European and South American football. For Forbes, I write basically about two groups from my hometown, Tottenham and Arsenal. Elsewhere, I have had reports, interviews and articles published in English and Portuguese through The Guardian, UOL Esporte, The Blizzard, GiveMeSport, Planet Football and Trivela. I am the founding editor of Yellow and Green Football, an online page committed to Brazilian football.