Topic summary
Footballer
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Football player.
International level
An observational study held from professional footballers -active (during their career) and recently retired (post-career, aged more than 45 years)- in 70 countries between 2007 and 2013, elaborated on data from the World Footballers' Union (FIFPro), recorded 214 deaths of which 25% was caused by accidents, 11% by suicides and 33% by a suspected cardiacpathology (on an overall 55% of deaths caused by some sort of disease).