Norwich uni study the relationship between Alzheimer's and football

At the moment, 50 people have been recruited for these studies. These subjects are footballers greater than 50-years-old and they will be study the relationship between players who head the ball and Alzheimer's disease.

According to 'AS', a former Wales National Team international, Iwan Roberts, is one of the recruited subjects for these experiments. A few months ago, in Chile, they also started a campaign to try to diagnose the disease early in athletes.

Alzheimer's is an illness that has affected a lot of footballers, especially older aged, throughout the years. In fact, in the World Champion England team of 1966, three players were registered with this illness.

The 'BBC' recently released a documentary, 'Insanity, Football and Me', which featured Alan Shearer talking about the same thing: "Every goal I scored with my head was preceded by a thousand equal shots in training. However, despite speculation, nothing has been proved so far".