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The link I sent was FIFA, because that is where most of the collapses/deaths have occurred this year.

There is research in nearly every sport if you take the time to look. And I am talking about cardiac/sudden deaths, not all deaths (football has heat exhaustion, concussions, etc). There is nowhere near the numbers we are seeing this year.

The efforts to play this off as normal by flooding the internet with new “stats” aren’t working. People know what’s normal and what’s not.

The efforts to play this off as normal by flooding the internet with new “stats” aren’t working.

Lets review. You said:

"Keep in mind the average for sudden cardiac/unexplained death among athletes is 4-6 per year."

When called on this nonsense stat you post the abstract of a study that didn't even try to determine the number of coronary deaths. As the authors state:

"After completing our data gathering, we were able to document less events compared with previous reports [3] published by members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC), by sending questionnaires to every Fédération Internationale de Football Association member association. Therefore, we did not attempt to calculate the incidence knowing that our database has fewer events that those reported by F-MARC, and would result in an underestimation of the problem."

Second, they only looked at a subset of FIFA. I don't have the statistic but I'd be surprised if 1% of the world's soccer players are members of FIFA association teams.

Never mind that this also ignores all the other sports - baseball, football, swimming, track & field, etc., etc. etc.

Face it. Your claim is ludicrous and you have absolutely nothing to back it up. Sadly it's also par for the course for too many posts on this website.