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This is a list of association footballers who died due to football-related incidents.. The primary causes of on-field deaths have evolved over time. Improvements in infection control and emergency surgery since the early days of organised soccer have mostly eliminated the fatal complications that were once common after routine sporting injuries.
Dec. 31—Two athletic and sports-minded New Mexico governors. Four highly successful high school coaches, one of them a star UNM quarterback. Two dedicated sports journalists. Two men bearing the ...
Authorities determined that Ovet Gomez Regalado collapsed after high school football practice and died two days later of heatstroke
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Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970). Cal Poly Mustangs football team: 16 players and 6 others died in an airplane crash (1960).
Chris Gizzi – football player and strength coach Green Bay Packers; Drew Haddad, 1996 – professional football player in the NFL and NFL Europe; Mike Hegan, 1960 – professional baseball player in Major League Baseball; TV and radio announcer for the Cleveland Indians; Chris Hovan, 1996 – professional football player in the NFL [30]
Earlier this month, a Virginia high school football player died during a team practice, when players took a water break after about 40 minutes of drills, USA Today reported.
[93] Grange played soccer in high school; college at Illinois-Chicago and New Mexico; in the Premier Development League; for Albuquerque Asylum; and for Chicago Fire Premier. He died of ALS at age 29 in 2012 with a posthumous diagnosis of CTE. [94] In 2014, Brazilian footballer Hilderaldo Bellini was posthumously diagnosed with CTE.