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Former Liverpool and Chile player Mark González (36) is in intensive care after suffering a heart attack.

Agustín Balbuena, scorer of the winner in the 1973 Intercontinental Cup against Juventus for Independiente, dead at 76. Played eight times for Argentina, including at the 1974 World Cup in West Germany. He scored 67 goals in 320 games in Argentina's top flight for Colón, Racing Club, Rosario Central and Independiente, where he also won the Copa Libertadores.

Agustín Balbuena, who was in the Argentine squad for the tournament in 1974, has died aged 76. Scored the winning goal in the 1973 Intercontinental Cup against Juventus.

Franco Acosta, a Uruguayan striker who played domestically and abroad, the latter at Spanish side Villarreal's 'B' team, has tragically drowned aged just 25. https://www.villarrealusa.com/2021/3/8/22319489/ex-villarreal-b-player-franco-acosta-passes-away-in-uruguay He came through at Fénix, spending two years there, where he made 20 appearances and scored three goals. Signing a 5 and a half year deal with Villarreal in January 2015, he made 48 appearances for their second string in the Spanish lower leagues, where he scored seven goals. He spent time out on loan from Villarreal at Racing Santander and back in his homeland with Plaza Colonial before leaving Spain in the summer of 2020. Moving back home to sign for Atenas in August last year, he had made seven appearances for the club at the time of his death.

Miguel Miranda, a Peruvian goalkeeper who played for numerous clubs in both his home nation and China before embarking on a career in coaching in both nations, has died aged 54 Miranda had 47 caps for Peru and played with them at four Copa Américas - in 1993, 1995, 1997 - where they finished fourth - and 1999. His last international cap for Peru came in November of 2001. https://depor.com/futbol-peruano/miguel-miranda-murio-a-los-54-anos-seleccion-peruana-universitario-sporting-cristal-nczd-noticia/

Being kept in until next week, mildly ominous?

Martí Vergés, part of Spain's 1962 squad, has died aged 86. He earned his 12 caps for Spain during his 13-year spell with Barcelona and also scored two goals. At Barcelona, he won three Inter-Cities Fairs Cups in 1958, 1960 and 1966, and Spanish titles in 1959 and 1960 and three Spanish Cups in 1957, 1959 and 1963. https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/club/news/2032187/marti-verges-passes-away

Real Madrid legend Pachín, born Enrique Pérez Díaz, has died aged 82. He played for Real Madrid between 1959 and 1968, making 148 appearances and scoring two goals. He was part of the Real Madrid sides that won the European Cup in 1960, in the famed Hampden final against Eintracht Frankfurt and 1966 when they came from a goal down to beat Partizan Belgrade in Brussels. Despite his glittering career at club level with Real, he only made eight appearances for the Spanish national side - two of which came at the 1962 World Cup in a 1-0 win over Mexico and a 2-1 defeat to eventual winners Brazil. https://www.realmadrid.com/en/news/2021/02/10/official-announcement-passing-of-enrique-perez-pachin

He really struck it lucky.

Bob Newhart.

Dianne Durham, the first Black woman to become US Gymnastics champion has died of a short illness aged 52. https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2021-02-04/durham-first-black-us-womens-gymnastics-champion-dies

Ali Ansarian, a former Iran international defender, turned actor and TV presenter, has died of COVID-19 aged 43. Initially, given his age, I thought he was part of the 1998 World Cup squad, but it turns out he made his debut in October of 1998 and picked up five more caps between then and 2007. https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/457730/Former-Iran-defender-Ali-Ansarian-dies-of-coronavirus

Shannen Doherty for me.

Yvon Douis, member of the France squad at the 1958 World Cup that finished third, has died aged 85 of COVID-19. He was capped 20 times for Les Bleus, scoring four times between 1957 and 1965. In his club career, a prolific goalscorer scored 62 goals in 172 appearances for Lille between 1953 and 1959. He moved to Le Havre where he registered 28 goals in 71 games in two seasons before moving on once more to Monaco. In the principality, he would score 62 times once again in 167 games between 1961 and 1967. His final club was AS Cannes, where played between 1967 and 1969 and scored 26 goals in 81 appearances. https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Disparition-d-yvon-douis-membre-de-l-equipe-de-france-1958/1217527 Douis' death means that only six of the France squad from that World Cup are still alive. Goalkeepers Dominique Colonna and Francois Remetter, defender Robert Mouynet, midfielder Bernard Chiarelli and strikers Maryan Wisniewski and the legendary Just Fontaine.

Did they send her First Class? Or are they not made of money?

Dr. Jozef Vengloš, assistant to Václav Ježek in the famed Czechoslovakia triumph at Euro 76, has died aged 84. He would go onto manage, among others, Aston Villa, where he was the first-ever foreign manager in the top flight in England and Celtic, where he succeeeed Wim Jansen in 1998 in what was an ultimately failed endeavour. Despite this, he remains remembered in Scotlsnd for his signing of Ľubomír Moravčík, regarded as one of Celtic’s finer signings in that time. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jozef-venglos-dead-83-former-23390737

Frank Arok, who managed Australia in the World Cup playoff with Scotland played in the wake of Jock Stein’s death in 1985, has died aged 88.

Christopher Maboulou, a French winger who played in his homeland for Chateauroux, Bastia and Nancy before playing in Greece for PAS Giannina, has died of a heart attack aged just 30. https://www.footmercato.net/a1211729832222245749-christopher-maboulou-est-decede At the time of his death, he was playing at amateur level in France with Thonon Evian, the club who rose from the ashes of Evian-backed Thonon Gaillard from Croix-de-Savoie.

That’s it, I think.

Been confirmed now by AEW. Unbelievably tragic.

Maksim Tsyhalka, anglicised to Maxim Tsigalko, a Belarusian footballer whose career was tempered aged 26 in 2010 by injury has died aged 37. Though his professional career was cut short his legend lives on through his world-class potential in the 2001/02 edition of the management simulator Championship Manager which endeared him to many players, myself included, and led to a cult following. https://sport.tut.by/news/football/712766.html

Bob Dole. Think him or Carter could sneak it in the last week.

Looks in decent nick here, for his age and health issues previously I mean.

David Sneddon MBE has died, per an announcement by Kilmarnock FC. Signed from Preston in 1961, he would go on to cement himself in Killie folklore by scoring the crucial goal at Tynecastle in 1965 that saw Killie win 2-0 and pip their opponents Hearts to the title. https://kilmarnockfc.co.uk/news/tribute-to-david-sneddon-mbe/