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Dementia afflicted footballers

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They will be so many cases in the decades ahead. The attempts to limit heading training in professional football are being totally ignored. Clubs are openly pro timing how they flouting the rules and are still making heading seem glamorous. All that will happen is one day English football will ban heading but it won’t be a worldwide ban anytime soon. There is already concern that all the ban on children will achieve in the short term is a skills gap that will lead to adult footballers increasing heading practice to catch up on footballers who learnt as kids and thus causing even more dementia cases.

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Probably worth posting this in here: the PFA are asking footballers who believe they may be suffering from signs of dementia, whether diagnosed or undiagnosed, to come forward as they seek more information on the link between heading and dementia. Might see a few more names come forward from this.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61376170

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Steve Smith, former Huddersfield captain and manager, is on @Octopus of Odstock list on Page 1. His family have mentioned he's now in the late stages of dementia, having originally announced he was ill in 2013. Sounds like his physical health collapsed during lockdown.

 

 

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Edgardo Bauza, 64, former Argentina national team player and manager of multiple teams including the national teams of Argentina, UAE and Saudi Arabia has advanced alzheimer's:

https://ar.marca.com/claro/futbol/2022/05/20/628778e4ca47410e5f8b4586.html

It has progressed rapidly, he was still working in 2019 and now he's doing worse than Bilardo according to that article

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Lots of backlash about this - watch the culture war type take it up and see there is evidence football and dementia are linked 

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It seems like a lot of people wrongly assume the modern balls are safer because they lighter ignoring that they now a lot faster. 

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On 16/08/2021 at 22:42, Octopus of Odstock said:

Stuart Chapman - ex-Port Vale and Stafford - https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/non-league/stafford-rangers/2021/04/23/stuart-chapmans-dementia-battle-shows-need-for-help

 Stuart Chapman dead.

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On 28/11/2020 at 20:37, Octopus of Odstock said:

Recent reports suggest a minimum of 375 former footballers have dementia or some form of degenerative brain deisease, but other people like Tony Cascarino suspect it is a lot more according to reports. For privacy reasons, not all 375 are going to reveal but with so many footballers now coming public and with the hapless Gordon Taylor now gone at the PFA, many more may now reveal their plight.

 

I thought it would be a good idea to record those living for research purposes. I know there are much more, but I can add them on in due course as of course this can be amended.

 

Forename Surname Age in 2022 Clubs International Caps
Francois Remetter 94 Metz, Strasbourg, Sochaux, Limoges, Bordeaux France 26
James Elder 94 Portsmouth, Colchester, Yeovil    
Tommy  Banks 93 Bolton, Altrincham England 6
Billy  Bingham 91 Glentoran, Sunderland, Luton, Everton, Port Vale Northern Ireland 56
Jack Parry 91 Derby County    
Dimas Zegarra 90 Sporting Tabaco,Unión Callao, Universitario de Deportes,Porvenir Miraflores Peru 21
Ray Lambert 89 Rotherham, Barnsley    
Jimmy Millar 88 Dunfermline, Rangers, Dundee United Scotland 2
Alan Peacock 85 Middlesbrough, Leeds, Plymouth Argyle England 6
Bobby Charlton  85 Manchester United, Preston England 106
Tony Claypole 84 Northampton Town    
Carlos Bilardo 84 San Lorenzo, Deportivo Español, Estudiantes    
Frank  Wignall 83 Everton, Nottingham Forest, Wolves, Derby County, Mansfield, King's Lynn England 2
Davie Wilson 83 Rangers, Dundee United, Dunfermline Scotland 22
Alan Roper 83 Walsall    
Denis Law 82 Huddersfield, Manchester City, Manchester United, Torino Scotland 55
Ivan Mraz 81 Slovan Bratislava, Spartak Praha, Dukla Prague, MVV Maastricht Czechoslovakia 4
Mike Bailey 80 Charlton, Hereford United, Wolves England 2
Rod Thornhill 80 Reading, Poole Town    
Horst-Dieter Hottges 79 Borussia Monchengladbach, Werder Bremen West Germany 66
Hugh Ryden 79 Bristol Rovers, Stockport County, Chester, Halifax    
Gordon Wallace 79 Montrose, Raith, Dundee, Dundee United, Seattle Sounders    
Bill Gates 78 Middlesbrough    
Alan Gilliver 78 Huddersfield, Blackburn, Rotherham, Brighton, Lincoln, Bradford, Stockport    
Nelson  Acosta 78 Huracan Buceo, Penarol    
Peter Cormack 76 Hibernian, Nottingham Forest, Liverpool, Bristol City, Partick Thistle Scotland 9
Joe  Kinnear 76 Tottenham, Brighton and Hove Albion Republic of Ireland 26
Piet Schrijvers 76 DWS, FC Twente, Ajax, FC Zwolle Holland 46
Chris Nicholl 76 Halifax, Luton, Aston Villa, Southampton, Grimsby Town Northern Ireland 51
Dave Watson 76 Notts County, Rotherham, Sunderland, Manchester City, Stoke City, Southampton, Derby England 65
Steve Smith 76 Huddersfield, Bolton, Halifax    
John Tudor 76 Coventry, Sheffield United, Newcastle United, Stoke, KAA Gent    
Dave Boylen 75 Grimsby Town    
Billy Sinclair 75 Greenock Morton, Chelsea, Glentoran, Kilmarnock, Linfield, Sligo Rovers    
Stan Bowles 74 Manchester City, Bury, Crewe, Carlisle, QPR, Nottingham Forest, Leyton O, Brentford England 5
Gareth Davies 73 Wrexham Wales 3
Tony Parkes 73 Blackburn Rovers    
Neil  Hague 73 Rotherham, Plymouth, Bournemouth, Huddersfield, Darlington    
Tommy Cassidy 72 Glentoran, Newcastle, Burnley Northern Ireland 24
Alex Cropley 71 Hibernian, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Newcastle United, Toronto Blizzard, Portsmouth Scotland 2
Terry McDermott 71 Bury, Newcastle United, Liverpool England 23
Stuart Chapman 71 Port Vale, Stafford Rangers, Macclesfield Town    
Frank  Womble 71 Rotherham, Crewe, Halifax    
Mick Lyons 71 Everton, Sheffield Wednesday, Grimsby    
Gordon McQueen 70 St Mirren, Leeds, Manchester United Scotland 30
Willie Young 70 Aberdeen, Tottenham, Arsenal, Nottingham Forest, Norwich, Brighton, Darlington    
Dave Serella 70 Nottingham Forest, Walsall, Blackpool    
Stuart Parker 68 Blackpool, Southend, Chesterfield, Blackburn, Bury, Chester etc.    
Jimmy Calderwood 67 Birmingham, Cambridge, Sparta Rotterdam, Willem II, Roda, Heracles    
Dave  Cusack 66 Sheffield Wednesday, Southend, Millwall, Doncaster, Rotherham, Boston    
John  Deehan 65 Aston Villa, Norwich, West Brom, Ipswich, Barnsley    
Edgardo Bauza 64 Rosario, Verecruz, Atletico Jr, Independiente Argentina 3
Gordon Cowans 64 Aston Villa, Blackburn, Derby, Wolves, Sheffield United, Bradford, Stockport, Burnley England 10
Steve Norris 63 Port Vale, Leek Town    
Brendan Ormsby 62 Aston Villa, Leeds, Shrewsbury, Doncaster, Scarborough, Wigan    
Colin Gibson 62 Aston Villa, Manchester United, Port Vale, Leicester, Blackpool, Walsall    

 

Neil Hague dead. https://www.themillers.co.uk/news/2022/july/obituary--neil-hague--1949---2022/

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Seeing as he's on your list OoO, Derby County player Jack Parry (wiki) died on 19 July, at the age of 90.

Death notice.

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Jan Furtok, Polish player in the 80s that defected to West Germany and played for Hamburger SV and Eintracht Frankfurt but is probably most memorable for scoring the goal that saved Poland from humiliation of getting a draw with San Marino during 1994 World Cup qualification, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer. He did a Maradona Hand of God just to save Poland from that.

 

http://amp.n-tv.de/sport/fussball/redelings_nachspielzeit/Das-beruehrende-Schicksal-des-Jan-Furtok-article22854399.html

 

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On 29/07/2022 at 05:34, whoismakoto said:

Samar Banerjee, captain of 1956 Indian Olympic team that placed 4th, revealed to have Alzheimer's after admitted to a hospital for long-term illness.

https://geotvnews.com/former-football-player-samar-banerjee-was-admitted-to-sskm-gtn-news/

Samar Banerjee dead at 92.

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On 25/11/2021 at 04:14, whoismakoto said:

I was contacted via letter by the son of François Remetter, the last living player of the French 1954 World Cup team and also part of 1958 team. His son said he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

Remetter dead at 94.

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Don't know if it was mentioned elsewhere but reading a column in Backpass football magazine and the author was talking about meeting Ex-Spurs and Wales legend Cliff Jones recently and mentioned that he's in the early stages of dementia

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