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Murder of Otávio Jordão da Silva. Otávio Jordão da Silva Cantanhede was a 20-year-old Brazilian amateur football referee [ 1][ 2] who was lynched, beheaded and quartered by football spectators after he stabbed a player to death in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013. [ 3][ 4]
Emiliano Sala. Emiliano Raúl Sala Taffarel ( Spanish pronunciation: [emiˈljano ˈsala]; 31 October 1990 – 21 January 2019) was an Argentine professional footballer who played as a striker . After playing youth football in Argentina and following a short spell in Portugal's regional leagues, Sala began his professional career in France with ...
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.
Second-team All-SEC ( 1997) Arkansas Razorbacks No. 77 retired. Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame. Brandon Vaughn Burlsworth (September 20, 1976 – April 28, 1999) was an American football player who was an offensive lineman of the Arkansas Razorbacks football team from 1995 to 1998. He joined the team as a walk-on and eventually became an All ...
A Malaysian international footballer has been splashed by acid and two other top players were attacked within a week by unknown assailants, in a rare outbreak of violence targeting athletes in the ...
Among them that year was Amílcar Henríquez, another member of the national soccer team at the time. Last year, there were 102 homicides, down from 111 in 2021. So far this year, there have been 60.
A player from an amateur soccer league in Buenos Aires was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head shortly after being charged with attempted homicide for a violent assault against a referee ...
Troy Polamalu. Troy Aumua Polamalu ( / ˌpoʊləˈmɑːluː /; born Troy Benjamin Aumua; [ 1] April 19, 1981) is an American former professional football player who spent his entire 12-year career as a safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). An eight-time Pro Bowl and six-time All-Pro selection, he was inducted ...