Rowdies’ Tommy Heinemann had to work to use his head in soccer
A sphere heads toward your head, fast and hard. What do you do? Probably, you duck. That’s human instinct, after all. It happens in baseball, and it happens in basketball, and it happens in dodgeball. But not in soccer. In soccer, you let the ball slam into your head, and you try to direct the carom. In soccer, you figure, it’s what heads are for. Take for instance, Tommy Heinemann of the Tampa Bay Rowdies, who drove the winning goal…