Do headers in soccer cause brain damage?

It seems unlikely that subconcussive impacts such as seen in head to ball contact will cause chronic neurological injury. Although head to head contact may cause concussive injury, it is both uncommon and unlikely to result in cumulative brain injury.

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/327/7411/351

A contrary opinion was written in a press coverage that highlighted the case of Jeff Astle, a former England international football player, and had been an exceptional header of the ball, and the coroner found that the repeated minor trauma had been the cause of his death. (It should be noted that the leather footballs used in Astle's playing days were considerably heavier than the plastic ones of today, especially when wet.) A verdict of death by industrial injury was recorded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Astle

http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1257582002

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,636739,00.html

The brain is located within the skull and in the space between them there is a fluid, which prevents the brain from clashing in to the skull - in cases of moving your head fast.

Every move stronger from just normal movement, is dangerous - like headers in soccer (because of the speed of the ball the force of the impact is big).
The fluid is not enough to prevent the brain from clashing in to the skull and the brain gets hit.
One or two hits like that is not enough to cause brain damage, but it will come after a few hits, and the more you'll get-the more damage occurs. 

No,of course not...they may cause headaches after a game depending on how often one heads the ball and the velocity of the ball. Usually you don't because people are expecting the ball and prepare, it's those that are caught off guard or hit unexpectedly that are sometime injured, but brain damage, NO.

No, I personally don't believe that heading in soccer could cause any brain injuries. Maybe headache or broken nose to people that recently has started to learn how to play soccer . There are actually some stuides claiming that you could become smarter by heading a soccer ball (I can't find the source right now).

If your able to find the answer about the studies being a smarter athlete or student please send it our way.  The source is important where you cite your answers or questions.  Most site will end with a domain identity interest such as like what the domain names mean or what the name represents.  Some of the samples that I can think of are various types. But getting back to the soccer head budding, my children all play soccer in a personal and also professional experience.  My son at the age of 22 ended up clashing heads with another player during a game.  Oh has had some serious injuries.  I was trained in soccer as an assistance coach for ages 10 and under and the skill is mostly introduced as one of the most higher level advance techniques.   The headache of always hitting the ball may be uncomforable for some players but no major head injury like what happend to my son.  The players are taught to stiffen their neck and bunt while the other tosses the ball gently.  In a professional game while the real play is going on, as you know when a person kicks hard and should you decide to stop it with with your  forehead.  You then apply those skills with the stiffening of your neck so that the ball re-tracks back outward.  There are some training soccer tips by experts and players themselves.  Your best resources to get expert advise is the FIFA Association and apply or search for the players rule book.  If I had known this to be true with having a smart head on my shoulders due to head bunting, you'll bet I'll try a second.

I believe it does, but it depends how strong your head hit the ball . In some cases it can make your brain shake and that can cause you headaches later on the day . If you keep hitting the ball in a wrong way you might cause yourself a brain damage, so those who don't know how to play soccer right should be careful before doing so without the proper guides.

Reason suggests that evolution designed us to cope with one or two concussions in life.  The brain has good regenerative capacity for a couple of significant concussions.  There is evidence that repetitive concussions do cause cumulative brain damage but this may not be apparent until middle or old age.  Mohammed Ali is a classic example from boxing.

The worry with heading in soccer is that even though the impacts are sub-concussive there are so many of them over so many years (depending on career length), moreso if players start heading whilst still children.  Even though the balls are more light weight (FIFA deliberately did this because of concern over cases like Jeff Astle), they are kicked with much more speed and power and players whip their heads to connect with the ball much more, and there is just a lot more heading than in past eras

There are Dutch studies of both amateurs and professional soccer players that showed a correlation between poorer performance on cognitive testing and players who headed the ball a lot versus midfielders who had a career where they headed the ball much less.

So if I played soccer or had children playing it - I would want to be a midfielder who only occasionally had to header the ball.