Medrick Burnett Jr., a 20-year-old Alabama college football player who was hospitalized after a head injury sustained during ...

Tributes have poured in for a young footballer who died in hospital after falling ill while playing a match. Adam Ankers, 19, played for Wycombe Wanderers Foundation’s Under-19s team in ...

Former player Gift Atulewa has died aged ... Ex-team-mate Olufemi Adebayo died aged 25 after a car accident in Greece in 2011 while Isaac Promise, who represented the senior team three times ...

In the past few years there have been a number of players who have died while playing football. Perhaps the most high profile incidents involved two African players; Cameroonian Marc Vivien Foe ...

A football player in Peru has died and more have suffered injuries ... In February, Septain Raharja was killed while playing in a friendly football match in Indonesia when he was hit by a ...

A TEENAGE boy has tragically died after he collapsed on a football pitch while playing with friends. The 15-year-old boy sadly passed away during a game at Ashton on Mersey School against Sale ...

The risk of footballers dying ... that of Marc-Vivien Foe while playing for Cameroon aged 28. Former England defender Ugo Ehiogu, who was a Spurs coach, died last year aged 44.

while three other players aged 14, 16 and 24 are in stable condition at the hospital. The player who died was identified as Hugo De La Cruz, a defender for Juventud Bellavista. The local ...