Analysis Of Football Injury Data From 2015-2021. Are Heart-Related Injuries More Frequent In The Year 2021?
https://thecovidworld.com/analysis-of-fo...t-in-year-2021/
The COVID World post date: December 26th, 2021
By Data Chinchilla

There have been many headlines about football players collapsing and dying recently and there are claims that it is happening a lot more frequently this year than you would normally expect.

Many lists have been compiled for this year with an array of news articles of such cases happening.

Claims have been made that these injuries could be related to the COVID-19 vaccine as for example myocarditis is linked to mRNA vaccines such as Pfizer and Moderna.

There’s also an abstract in the American Heart Association publication by Steven Gundry with a claim that certain inflammatory markers change after taking the vaccine increasing heart disease risk over 2 times.

I haven’t noticed a good comparison being made with previous years so how can we tell whether there are truly more heart-related issues happening in football than previously?

I decided to go over data from Transfermarkt.com.

Transfermarkt.com

They keep track of injuries of football players and they have a list of over 900,000 player profiles. Not every player has up-to-date profiles, but if we are lucky we can still compile something statistically significant from there. This will allow us to compare heart-related injury rates compared to previous years.

I wrote a script to go over all injury pages, for all players. It took a while to crawl over 900,000 pages, but here I present the findings.

Example of a page highlighting those injuries:

Findings

The first and most obvious thing I could think of was to just compare absolute numbers. How many cases of “Heart Condition” has there been for each year?

Following that, I figured I compile a list of injuries that stand out for the year 2021. I will compare each injury that occurs with at least 1 out of 2000 frequencies.

We will look at the data from 2015, since before 2015, injuries were not tracked as well, skewing the data.

For 2020 and 2021 there were also many “Corona virus” and “Quarantine” listed out as injuries. I have filtered those to have better comparisons with previous years.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

One of many. I ran across this today:

GUATEMALAN star Marcos Menaldo has tragically passed away at the age of 25 after suffering a heart attack in training on Monday.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/...d-heart-attack/

The Deportivo Marquense defender complained of breathing difficulties during a session while preparing for the new season.

Marcos Menaldo has sadly passed away at the age of 25 after suffering a heart attack

Menaldo helped Deportivo Marquense win Guatemala's second division title last campaign

Menaldo received emergency CPR at the Marquesa de la Ensenada Stadium in San Marcos.

He was then transferred to the Hospital de Especialidades where he died.-- excerpt, rest at link above --