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I've got a dozen other professional soccer players who collapsed on the field untouched, and all of these events happened after the vaccine rollout. Several young professional cyclists as well.
Between the onset of the covid pandemic and the rollout of the vaccine, there was a wide time gap of around 15-18 months (that gap is wider in Europe as covid hit earlier in many countries including Italy).
There are no cases of players collapsing in that year plus time gap between the onset of covid and the rollout of the vaccine, but over a dozen cases after the rollout. This settles the claim that these repeated freak accidents might have been caused by covid itself, rather than the vaccine.
In 50 years of following European soccer very closely, the only case of a top league player collapsing from a heart injury during play or practice is former French international Omar Sahnoun, leader of the French 1977 champions FC Nantes. Sahnoun had a heart attack after the 1977 season, which kept him off the 1978 WC. He resumed playing one year later and eventually died from a fatal heart attack two years later while playing for Bordeaux. Until 2021, this has been an exceptionally rare occurrence.
Ok, let's unpack what you wrote here.
So the vaccine was released in December 2020. So the question would be, what incidences of cardiac events occurring after December 2020, among professional athletes, soccer or otherwise, can be definitively attributed to the vaccine. There isn't much data on this but there have been alot of theories and myths surrounding pro athletes.
Certainly what matters is whether there was even sports being played - professional or amateur. This varies by region, state and country. What I could find was a charge that originated in Israel, that 108 professional and amateur athletes had died in the subsequent 6 months after the vaccine rollout in December 2020, of cardiac related events.
In short, this theory was debunked by numerous news agencies and professional sports sanctioning bodies. One news agency, Reuters, contacted these sanctioning bodies. As it related to professional soccer players, FIFA stated:
"FIFA is not aware of a rise in episodes of cardiac arrests as indicated in your email and no cases have been flagged in relation to individuals receiving a COVID vaccine. "Generally speaking, FIFA is in regular contact with leading research centres and experts to do research on a variety of medical topics."Reuters also reached out to World Athletics, the Rugby Football League (RFL), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) which regulates student athletes in more than a thousand North American institutions and conferences the International Handball Federation (IHF), the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), International Rugby League (IRL), the National Rugby League (NRL) of Australia, the International Cricket Council (ICC), World Rugby and the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for comment. In all, none of them had any evidence that any of their athletes had died as a result of contracting covid or as a result of taking a covid vaccine.
The Reuters article is here:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2T81NY/As to your assertion that only one soccer player has died on the pitch since 1977, I suppose it depends on your definition of a heart injury. But, I did a quick look at some articles and found this from the American Journal of Medicine:
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(22)00884-1/fulltextI couldn't access the whole article but the abstract reads:
"We identified 35 male professional soccer players (mean age 26 5 years) who experienced collapse and cardiac arrest on the field (most during matches) in Europe from December 2002 to February 2022 with 63% in the last 6 years. Twenty-five have died on the field or later in a hospital despite cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Of the 10 survivors, eight were implanted with cardioverter-defibrillators for secondary (n = 6) or primary (n = 2) prevention and returned to full competition; five of the 8 required successful device therapy during matches or training.I'm sure if I looked more closely, and I went back from 1977 to 2002, I could find additional instances of players collapsing on the pitch as a result of a cardiac event. In short, cardiac arrest happens frequently in world football and in amateur ranks.
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