“For decades, I NEVER saw a professional soccer player suddenly drop dead on a field during a game. I watched them play in scorching heat in critical games where no player on either team was going to back down an inch. Somehow, as though a miracle, they all lived.”
LOL!
—————9 in 2019-——9 in 2018——10 in 2017———
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_after_on-field_incidents
Your Wikipedia list has separate, distinct, and known injuries where the player died after the match - head injuries, blood poisoning, getting kneed to the stomach, ruptured bowels, ruptured kidneys, concussions, kicked in the head, tetanus, perforated bowel, fractured skull, etc. all happening years apart.
Pretending that these deaths are the same as players just dropping on the field with NO reported injury is disingenuous at best, outright lies and propaganda in actuality.