Athletes Deaths Thread

[Thagard 84]

Emerich Jenei (also ethnic Hungarian), football player and coach, winner as coach of European Champions Cup with Steaua Bucuresti in the famous final of Seville 1986 vs Barcelona, where GK Helmuth Duckadam (also passed this year) blocked 4 penalties to end PSO with clean sheet, passed away yesterday, aged 88.

 

He also coached Romania at WC 1990 to round of 16 and at Euro 2000 (quarter-finals).

 

He also played at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics.

 

May he rest in peace. 

Edited November 6 by Thagard

[Grassmarket 4,028]

37 minutes ago, Thagard said:

Emerich Jenei (also ethnic Hungarian), football player and coach, winner as coach of European Champions Cup with Steaua Bucuresti in the famous final of Seville 1986 vs Barcelona, where GK Helmuth Duckadam (also passed this year) blocked 4 penalties to end PSO with clean sheet, passed away yesterday, aged 88.

 

He also coached Romania at WC 1990 to round of 16 and at Euro 2000 (quarter-finals).

 

He also played at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics.

 

May he rest in peace. 

I remember seeing it.  Second-worst* game of football I ever saw, followed by the greatest-ever goalie in a penalty shoot-out.

 

*Worst-ever was  v  in USA 94.  

[Dragon 2,026]

Hockey player Imran Sherwani died today aged just 57 after developing Alzheimer's disease very young.

Most famous for scoring two goals for GBR in the 1988 Olympic Final and inspiring one of the great lines in commentary with GB's third goal.

 

Edited November 28 by Dragon

[Grassmarket 4,028]

16 hours ago, Dragon said:

Hockey player Imran Sherwani died today aged just 57 after developing Alzheimer's disease very young.

Most famous for scoring two goals for GBR in the 1988 Olympic Final and inspiring one of the great lines in commentary with GB's third goal.

 

Those guys were huge stars in Britain back in the days when we did not get as many Olympic Golds.

[Gianlu33 5,276]

 Nicola Pietrangeli, Italian tennis legend.

[Rafa Maciel 1,658]

Not quite in the same league as some of the posts on this thread but Valegro - Charlotte Dujardin's double Olympic gold medal winning horse  - has been put down. 

 

Valegro: Charlotte Dujardin's Olympic-winning horse dies - BBC Sport

[phelps 8,278]

Mabel Bocchi,  basketball legend

 

the woman that put women's basketball on the Italian sports chart

 

1975 world best female player for FIBA, leader of the legendary team GEAS Sesto San Giovanni (in the outskirt of Milan), which in 1978 was the first team from Western Europe to win the glorious Champions Cup and also the first ever Italian women's team to win a European competition (in any sport)

 

https://www.oasport.it/2025/12/basket-femminile-e-morta-mabel-bocchi-leggenda-senza-tempo/