No, no, no—your link says nothing of 150 players in a pro league dying in a year! It says 150 globally—of those playing the world’s most commonly played sport. FIFA is just one of the sponsors of the database.
That is absolutely, completely, very different!
And another article there says this, 13 year timeline:
“Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, with over 200 million active players. Sudden cardiac death (SCD) represents the most striking as well as the most common cause of death in the soccer field. Underlying cardiovascular pathologies predispose to life threatening ventricular arrhythmias and SCD in soccer players. Up to thousands to hundred thousands players might have an underlying condition that predisposes them for SCD. After several media striking SCD events in soccer players the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has made screening recommendations that are more thorough than the ones recommended for the American Heart Association and the European Society of Cardiology. We present a retrospective search through Internet databases that resulted in 54 soccer players with SCD events from 2000 until 2013.”
https://sponet.fi/Record/4035550
So in 13 years there were only 54 out of 200 million yearly active players...
Good catch. I am wondering how many had heart issues but were successfully resuscitated or hospitalized and did not die to become a statistic.
Then if you want young (pediatric) “out-of-hospital cardiac arrests” (OHCA) in the USA than that number is 23,500 per year. (2016 pre-COVID)
https://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(20)30160-X/fulltext