Why do footballers tape up their wrists?

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[BBC] The answer is simple. Footballers mainly tape their wrists to protect them from injury. Sports tape, which is wrapped around the wrist and sometimes fingers, provides support and stability to the wrist joints during a match – meaning that if a player has been tackled, faced a collision or a fall, the tape will […]

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