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The report recorded worldwide deaths attributed to sudden cardiac arrest or other unexplained sudden death while playing (or shortly after playing) football during the period from 2014 to 2018. There were 617 cases during the five-year period. In the majority of cases where an autopsy was carried out, the cause of death was coronary heart disease.
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This category covers association football players who have either died while playing, died directly from injuries sustained while playing, or died after taking ill on the pitch. Contents Top
This list is organized alphabetically by the sport the individual officiated in, and notes the deaths in chronological order within each sport. Also noted are age, leagues/associations or events they were part of when they died, officiating position (if applicable), cause of death, and date of death. Some deaths occurred due to an in-game ...
List of gridiron football players who died during their careers; List of association footballers who died after on-field incidents; List of athletics competitors who died during their careers; Sudden cardiac death of athletes
Cause of death Ref. Brazil: Cléber Eduardo Arado: Association football: 48 COVID-19 [10] Indonesia: Alex Asmasoebrata: Auto racing: 69 Unknown [11] Spain: Miquel Ferrer: Association football: 89 Unknown [12] Canada: Rob Flockhart: Ice hockey: 64 Heart attack [13] South Africa: Ryder Mofokeng: Association football: 68 Unknown [14] United States ...
For professional football players, the most common cause of death is vehicle crashes. For college players, the most common cause of death is in-game and practice injuries. Each player is listed with the team to which he was assigned at the time of his death, rather than the team with which he spent most of his career.
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