Thread by @BadVaccineTakes

I’ve been seeing this ‘108 football deaths in 6 months’ figure going around and wondered where it came from.

It’s not mentioned anywhere in the Express link from James and Bev.

So I had a look for it…

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There are several blogs talking about this story, which give the source as Real Time News from Israel.

This write-up says RTN looked at deaths of FIFA players in 12 months between Dec 2020-Nov 2021, and produced this 108 number

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I found Real Time News. It’s in Hebrew, so I used Google Translate.

It looks like a subscription blog covering national news with a lot of anti- Covid measures stories

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So what was their story?

- they looked at all cases where a sports player or coach collapsed while playing or not playing, in all sports, from school to professional level, in the world between Dec 20 - Nov 21

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They say they found 183 cases of which 108 died

- they only give the names of 30 people, of which 14 died.
- some of those named cases from early in the year (Dec - March-ish) were too young to even have been eligible for vaccines then anyway

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So what about the FIFA players?

RTN did look at the Wiki page on association footballers who had died which playing.
RTN’s view = deaths have soared

I looked at that page too.
14 deaths in 2021. Compared to 10 in 2017 and 12 in 2016
It’s not very different from other years
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