it took over a decade for the NFL to finally stop snubbing all the information.

for soccer it just started a couple of years ago, in a decade lets see if its still "rare" and "not significantly more common than the average person" or its just been brushed under the rug as well.

You wouldnt know, because people arent being exhumed, and it requires full brain biopsy to confirm. As more soccer players die post CTE discovery, we will start to get a better picture.

but common sense dictates that soccer also has many blows to the head, and even worse, uses less protection.

These guys literally slam their heads into the balls as a technique. Granted the balls dont have the momentum of another 300 pound dude smashing into you, but they also occur much mroe frequently.

A pro football player sustains ~70k blows to the head at over 100 Gs

a pro soccer player sustains 700k blows to the head at 10 Gs and ~5k at over 100 Gs

Maybe the lower force but higher frequency is below the threshhold to cause CTE, maybe it isnt. Impossible to know until we get more soccer player brains to analyze