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The laws of the game explained for parents, what the coach is actually trying to teach at each age, how to read what you are watching, and the tactical basics that help you understand what is going wrong and why.

Junior football players aged around 10 in a small-sided game, heading-the-ball technique deliberately absent, ball moving along the ground.

The header restriction in junior football: which states have limits at which ages.

Heading the ball is restricted in junior Australian football because of growing evidence on cumulative head impact. Football Australia sets the national framework. State bodies implement competition rules. Restrictions vary by state and age band. Here is what is allowed where, in plain language, and what to do if a coach asks your kid to break the rule.

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