Leading sportspeople who died this year:
AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Charles 'Bubba' Smith
Super Bowl winning defensive actor who after fake a comparatively successful behaving career died aged 66 of strident drug intoxication and heart disease on Aug 3. Most successful spell in a NFL came with a afterwards Baltimore Colts and landed a Super Bowl during a finish of a 1970 deteriorate a year after losing to a Joe Namath-led New York Jets. After retirement he gained serve celebrity by his description of physically commanding yet soft-spoken military partisan Moses Hightower in all yet one of a "Police Academy" films.
AUTOMOBILE RACING
Dan Wheldon
Two-time Indianapolis 500 champion killed as a outcome of injuries suffered in a pile-up in a Indy 300 competition during Las Vegas on Oct 16 aged 33. Born in England Wheldon changed to a United States in 1999 and 6 years after became a initial Englishman given Graham Hill in 1966 to win a Indianapolis 500 and went on to win it again this year. In a Vegas competition he was racing from a behind of a margin in office of a $5 million esteem offering by IndyCar to a non-series motorist who could win a finale.
BASEBALL
Hideki Irabu
Japanese star pitcher who never lived adult to expectations during a New York Yankees committed self-murder aged 42 on Jul 28 during his home in California after his mother told him she was withdrawal with their dual children. Spent 6 years in North American Major League Baseball including dual World Series-winning New York Yankees teams, yet he didn't representation in possibly of those series.
BOXING
Sir Henry Cooper
Much-loved British heavyweight champion who died dual days before his 77th birthday on May 1. Best famous for his 1963 non-title hitch with Muhammad Ali when he landed 'Enry's Hammer' felling his opponent. Some gamesmanship by Ali's tutor Angelo Dundee substantially saved his immature star from defeat. Cooper late in 1971 and went on to do an outrageous volume for gift as good as a kitsch array of adverts alongside Kevin Keegan for an aftershave.
Joe Frazier
World heavyweight champion famous as 'Smokin Joe' died of liver cancer aged 67 on Nov 8. The former farmworker from South Carolina fought a mythological triology of pretension fights with Muhammad Ali in a 1970's - Frazier won a initial yet mislaid a successive two, Ali describing a final hitch 'The Thrilla in Manila' as "the closest thing to unwell that we know of". Outside a ring a dual never done adult as Frazier felt slighted by Ali's taunts of 'Uncle Tom and gorilla'. Eventually Frazier did pardon his aged opposition in 2009 and a thin Ali incited adult for his funeral.
CRICKET
Mansur Ali Khan 'Tiger' Pataudi
Former Indian cricket captain died aged 70 of lung illness on Sep 22. The Nawab of Pataudi nicknamed 'Tiger' given of his glorious throwing and throwing in a outfield. He played many of his career though his right eye, that he mislaid in a automobile collision in England shortly before he became a initial Indian to captain Oxford University. Pataudi became India's captain during a age of 21 and led them in 40 of his 46 Tests - timid from exam cricket in 1976 - winning 9 and securing a country's initial array win abroad on a 1967/68 debate of New Zealand.
Peter Roebuck
Controversial former Somerset county captain who found a some-more successful career as an superb cricket compare allegedly committed self-murder aged 55 on Nov 12. Was apparently about to be incarcerated by Cape Town military - he was covering a South Africa Australia exam array - over an purported passionate attack on a Zimbabwean male when he threw himself from his hotel room window. His duration as Somerset captain was overshadowed by his preference to mangle adult a successful side by not carrying a contracts of West Indies greats Viv Richards and Joel Garner not renewed call Ian Botham to pierce to Worcestershire.
FOOTBALL
Florian Albert
Hungary's customarily ever ever footballer to be awarded a 'Ballon d'Or' esteem as a European Footballer of a Year died on Oct 31 aged 70 following heart bypass surgery. Outstanding striker who won a Ballon d'Or in 1967 violence Manchester United and England star Bobby Charlton into second place by 68 votes to 40. Albert scored 31 general goals between 1959 and 1974 and 255 goals in 351 joining matches for his solitary bar Ferencvaros.
Nat Lofthouse
English general striker famous as a 'Lion of Vienna' died aged 85 on Jan 15. Earned his nickname for his opening in England's 3-2 win over Austria in 1952 and finished his general career with 30 goals in 33 appearances. He was voted Bolton's biggest ever actor 4 years ago as he done some-more than 450 appearances for a Trotters, scoring 285 goals for a bar between 1946 and 1960.
Socrates
Brazilian football idol died on Dec 4 aged 57 of an abdominal infection. Captained a good 1982 Brazilian side that was widely-regarded as a excellent group never to win a World Cup and also played in 1986 book yet was not entirely fit and missed a chastisement in a quarter-final better by France. Rare among Brazilian football stars in entrance from a center category credentials and competent as a doctor. Was a self-confirmed bon viveur and he after certified his unwell health was related to his adore of alcohol.
Gary Speed
Wales manager and former seemly midfielder committed self-murder on Nov 27 aged 42. His genocide left many dumbfounded as he had been in a best of form when he seemed on a BBC on a day before his death. Enjoyed a renowned personification career and was a member of a Leeds side that won a final First Division Championship in 1992. Played 85 times for Wales and also captained them 44 times. Took over coaching a inhabitant side final year and was credited with reviving their fortunes recently heading them to 3 unbroken wins for a initial time given 2008.
GOLF
Severiano Ballesteros
Charismatic Spanish golfer 'Seve' died on May 7 aged 54 after years of ill health following a mind swelling operation. Led a swell in European golfers severe a leverage of a Americans and won 5 majors with his play dirty by brazen strokes from unfit lies. Name perpetually compared with Europe branch a tables on formerly unbeatable Americans in Ryder Cup. Despite timid in 2007 and his successive health problems his change never waned and his phone call final year roused a European group and they went onto corner a Americans in Wales to recover a Ryder Cup.
HORSE RACING
Donald 'Ginger' McCain
English four-time Grand National winning tutor died dual days before his 81st birthday on Sep 19 after a prolonged illness. a former cab motorist and automobile salesman, his fortunes were to change inexorably once he took on an normal prosaic equine Red Rum and guided him to 3 Grand National wins. Was to go on and win another with Amberleigh House in 2004.
ICE HOCKEY
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Threetime Russian champions star-studded patrol was all yet wiped out in a craft pile-up on Sep 7. Alexander Galimov was a solitary actor to tarry customarily to die a few days after of his injuries. He had scored their final idea in what incited out to be their final compare together a 5-2 feat over Torpedo. Among a others to die was 30-year-old goaltender Stefan Liv, Polish-born yet adopted by Swedish relatives who was a member of a Swedish 2006 universe and Olympic bullion award winning teams.
MOTORCYCLING
Marco Simoncelli
Fast rising daredevil MotoGp supplement died as a outcome of injuries suffered in a pile-up in a Malaysian MotoGp on Oct 23 aged 24. Ironically it was during a same Sepang lane a mop-haired Italian supplement had enjoyed his sweetest impulse finishing third in a 2008 250cc competition to take a universe title. His demon might caring strategy did get him into difficulty such as when he was concerned in a argumentative pile-up with Dani Pedrosa during a French GP in May that left Pedrosa requiring medicine on a shoulder fracture. He achieved his best outcome in MotoGP with a second place to universe champion Casey Stoner in Australia a week before his death.
RUGBY UNION
Albert Ferrasse
First French boss of a International Rugby Board (IRB) and former boss of a French rugby association (FFR), died on Jul 28 aged 93. He might have been a run of a indent actor yet he was a tough as teak director as boss of a FFR from 1968-91 and a IRB from 1979-87 and played a outrageous purpose in removing a World Cup adult and running, presenting a prize during a initial final in Auckland in 1987.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Vasily Alekseyev
Two-time Soviet Union Olympic super heavyweight champion died of heart illness aged 69 on Nov 25 in a hospital in Munich, where he had won a initial of his dual Olympic titles. While bullion also followed in Montreal sadly he was incompetent to make it a threepeat in his 'home' Olympics a Moscow book in 1980. One of a loyal greats of a competition customarily sinister by doping he also won 8 universe crowns and set 80 universe records.
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