Sometimes, but this victim didn't start playing soccer at age 27. He's likely been playing since he was 4 years old and such a heart condition had plenty of time to show.
Pete Maravich was born without a Left Coronary Artery, which they didn’t discover until his autopsy.
And yet they don’t. Body problems are weird. Friend of mine had a malformed liver. He was cruising along fine until he was about 40 then all of a sudden it stopped working. Almost died but they managed to find a donor liver in time. He’s the oldest living person with that syndrome ever. The next oldest is 18.
For the heart it’s often times aortic dissection. Often the end result of connective tissue diseases. So you have this problem where some chunk of your heart is getting weaker and weaker, but nobody know until finally one day it pops. And you die. Could happen when you’re a teen. Could wait until you’re in your 40s.
It happens.