Athletes Deaths Thread

[Faramir 376]

 Salvatore "Totò" Schillaci, top scorer and best player of the 1990 FIFA World Cup, died at 59 years old - cancer.

[hckošice 15,122]

Terrible news. RIP

 

Just a few weeks ago I watched some highlights from Italia Novanta and his goals including the one against Czechslovakia

 

[Grassmarket 3,626]

  On 9/18/2024 at 10:17 AM, hckošice said:

Terrible news. RIP

 

Just a few weeks ago I watched some highlights from Italia Novanta and his goals including the one against Czechslovakia

 

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Had a very strange career.  Was really considered a decent but second rank player prior to 1990.  Became a global superstar in 1990. After 1990........went back to being a decent but second rank player again.

[heywoodu 15,353]

2016 U20 world champion (800m) Kipyegon Bett , bronze at te 2017 senior world championships, has died yesterday after a month of illness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipyegon_Bett

 

Massive talent in 2015-2017 or so, got caught for EPO and never really competed anymore outside of Kenya after that.

 

[heywoodu 15,353]

One of the legends of Dutch football from the 70's, Johan Neeskens, has passed away aged 73. His most famous moment by far was in the World Cup final against West Germany, when in the 2nd minute he made 1-0 from a penalty in his characteristic way: indescribably hard through the middle.

[Speedy 99]

  On 10/7/2024 at 12:19 PM, heywoodu said:

2016 U20 world champion (800m) Kipyegon Bett , bronze at te 2017 senior world championships, has died yesterday after a month of illness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipyegon_Bett

 

Massive talent in 2015-2017 or so, got caught for EPO and never really competed anymore outside of Kenya after that.

 

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Another young Kenyan athlete, who passes away in recent years. Sad for this country.

[ChandlerMne 1,098]

Another Kenyan athlete died. Apparently, 6th death in a few weeks.

This time African champion in 3000 m SC from 2015.

Apparent suicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Kemboi

[Grassmarket 3,626]

British Shot Putter Geoff Capes.  Was most active in the 70s and 80s, when shot putting was in a very drug-enhanced era, so never won the big prizes, but was pretty much a national hero in Britain from his appearances in reality tv shows as well as his athletics career.

 

Geoff Capes: World’s strongest man and British shot put record holder Capes dies aged 75 - BBC Sport

[heywoodu 15,353]

Football player Zé Carlos. He played a single match for Brazil, but it wasn't a small one: his only international match for Brazil was the 1998 World Cup semi against the Netherlands (because of Cafu being suspended).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zé_Carlos_(footballer,_born_1967)

[LuizGuilherme 280]

  On 10/26/2024 at 6:41 AM, heywoodu said:

Football player Zé Carlos. He played a single match for Brazil, but it wasn't a small one: his only international match for Brazil was the 1998 World Cup semi against the Netherlands (because of Cafu being suspended).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zé_Carlos_(footballer,_born_1967)

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He was playing Brazilian Série C a year before the World Cup and then disappeard again. I think he is the most obscure player to play a world cup game for Brazil.

 

Nice story.