Soccer More Dangerous Than Football — Noted strength trainer Mark Rippetoe of StartingStrength.com points out that soccer is a more dangerous game than football. Soccer players get 6.2 injuries per 100 participation hours compared to football players who only get .1 injury per 100 participation hours. 
Rippetoe says the stronger the athlete the less likely a joint will be shoved out of position.
That linked article doesn’t go into enough depth. A chart of raw counts of injuries doesn’t say much about the kinds of injuries. The issue today is not the absolute number of injuries football players are liable to incur–that’s always been a given that football is a contact sport, and a player is likely to break a bone or two. The issue today is the head injuries. And I’d like to see specific numbers about the injuries soccer players incur, and the long-term damage, due to heading the ball. I think that’s the real stat that should be compared with head injuries in football. Because I suspect that there is a higher rate of concussion and subsequent long-term damage in soccer, than in football. And especially for kids, I think soccer, which Baby Boomer and Gen-X parents thought was so cool and so chic, is more likely to give kids head trauma, than football.
And a parting shot–when was the last time a kid playing baseball suffered a concussion? Enroll your kids in Little League.
Here you go: http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/20111129/heading-soccer-ball-linked-to-brain-injury
But the faked soccer injury is 6.1 out of 100 participation hours while the overlooked/unreported football injury rate is 89.6 per 100 participation hours.