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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.
Purdue: 14 members of football team were killed in a railroad collision (1903). 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).
4 members of team killed [23] 10 May 1987: Querétaro F.C. Association football: Bus: San Luis Potosí, Mexico: 3: 3 members of team killed [26] 20 January 1989: Samsunspor: Association football: Bus: Samsun, Turkey: 5: 3 players and coach Nuri Asan killed. 2 players have career ending injuries. [27] 24 January 1992: University of Notre Dame ...
A soccer player has died after being struck by lightning midway through a live TV game. On Sunday, Nov. 3, Jose Hugo de la Cruz Meza, 39, was killed after the bolt hit him during a game between ...
Uruguayan soccer player Juan Izquierdo has died days after collapsing on the field during a game. He was 27. Izquierdo died at a local Brazilian hospital on Tuesday, Aug. 27, five days after he ...
A screengrab from video streamed by the Onda Deportivo Huancavelica sports broadcaster in Peru shows the moment a lightning bolt struck José Hugo De la Cruz Meza, 39, a defender for the Chocca ...
Major League Soccer player Marco Angulo, a defender who helped FC Cincinnati win the Supporters’ Shield last season, died on Monday night following injures from an October car accident in ...
Mewis was named New England Soccer News Player of the Year and was an All-ACC first team selection. She was a Hermann Trophy semifinalist and a member of Soccer America MVP's first team. Mewis received NSCAA All-American first team accolades and was named to Top Drawer Soccer's second team. She was also the NSCAA Player of the Week on September ...