Manchester 62 FC has been leading on the issue of CTE and concussion in football, but faces going out of business
A unique football club that for years shared the Manchester United name and had the blessing of Sir Matt Busby for its creation faces the prospect of going out of business in a matter of weeks.
The club’s mission to raise awareness of CTE and to tackle the issue of concussion and its impact in football has been driven by the club’s American owner, Michael Monsour, whose career before entering into football had been in senior living and memory care, with his involvement in a similar project at Pittsburgh City United having acted as the precursor to his Manchester 62 plan.
“We had a lot of success early on, but unfortunately we had some investors back out and it's been a fight of survival to balance it out ever since. “But we are where we are in the darkest hour of this, and it's because we've got tried to do something different. I came in and wanted to do the right thing for the game and put safety first. It's really important.”
“It took till January 21 last year for all ten outfield players to wear the protective headgear, and at that point we had limited sponsorship. The funding was not significant “CTE is going to get progressively worse, and there are so many lives lost that aren't being accounted for because not every brain of a player that dies from suicide, which is a huge aspect of CTE, is analysed for that.
“I cannot tell you that the protective headgear is 100% going to stop a concussion or stop the player from getting CTE. It's about reduction of risk and advancement in science.”
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