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21Apr

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Ireland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Tom Mulholland, Gaelic footballer

Tom Mulholland ‑ a Gaelic footballer who played senior football for Kilkerley Emmets, Louth and Leinster – died from Covid-19 on 20 April 2020. He was also honorary president of the Kilkerley Emmets club. Mulholland lived in the village of Kilkerley, near Dundalk, where he was a dairy farmer. He had six sisters and one brother. He was married in 1968 and had eight children. Some of his children played football and camogie at various levels. Mulholland pursued his involvement in athletics until he was in his seventies. After an outbreak of COVID-19 at Dealgan House Nursing Home (where he resided), Mulholland was admitted to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda where he died on 20 April 2020.

18Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Norman Hunter, footballer

Norman Hunter ‑ an English footballer – died on April 17 2020 due COVID‑19. Hunter played for Leeds United, Bristol City, Barnsley and England. He was part of the 1966 FIFA World Cup winning squad, receiving a winner's medal in 2007. He was the first winner of the PFA Players' Player of the Year award in 1974, and was included in the Football League 100 Legends. A tough tackling centre-half and defensive midfielder, he was nicknamed "Bites Yer Legs" Hunter. The nickname originated from a banner held up by Leeds United fans at the 1972 FA Cup Final against Arsenal; the banner read "Norman bites yer legs". He played 726 games in total for Leeds, scoring 21 goals. Hunter was born in Eighton Banks, Gateshead, in 1943 and joined Leeds at t...

15Apr

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Ireland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Danny Delaney, footballer

Danny Delaney a Gaelic footballer and administrator. He played for Laois and Stradbally during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s died at the Maryborough Centre in Portlaoise of COVID-19 on the morning of 14 April 2020. He was from Cork Road in Stradbally. With Stradbally, Delaney won both the 1959 and 1963 Laois Intermediate Football Championships. He also played hurling for the Ratheniska team. In 1973, Delaney was elected vice-chairman of the county board under Sean Ramsbottom. Delaney also served as chairman of the Stradbally club. He He had been there for around three weeks, having spent months in the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise. Delaney was one of nine deaths at the Maryborough Centre over the Easter weekend, reducing the number of residents there by one third. He ...

15Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Cyril Lawrence, footballer

Cyril Lawrence ‑ an English professional footballer who played as a Winger ‑ died after contracting the COVID-19 virus on 14 April 2020, aged 99. Lawrence played in the English football league for Blackpool, Rochdale and Wrexham. In 2017, aged 97, Lawrence visited Spotland Stadium, the home of Rochdale. During World War II, Lawrence enlisted in the Royal Navy and was posted to the King George V-class battleship as a gunner. He saw service in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic and Pacific, most notably the pursuit and destruction of the German battleship Bismarck, as well as arctic convoys to supply the Soviets, the Battle of Okinawa and the final surrender of the Japanese home islands. He married his wife Clara in 1944, while on shore leave. After the wa...

14Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Baldiri Alavedra, footballer

Baldiri Alavedra Pla –a Spanish professional footballer who played as a midfielder – died on 13 April 2020 at the age of 76, from coronavirus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. Born in Gavà, Alavedra played for Condal, Sabadell, Xerez, Terrassa, Gramenet and Gavà.

13Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Brian Arrowsmith, footballer

Brian Arrowsmith ‑ an English footballer and manager ‑ died on April 12 in hospital on Easter Sunday in 2020 having contracted COVID-19. Born in Barrow-in-Furness, he spent his entire professional career at his hometown club Barrow. He made 512 appearances for Barrow, including 378 in the Football League, the most at that level for the club. Arrowsmith started his career as a right back, but played across the defence when required. He captained Barrow during the 1966–67 season in which they won promotion from the Fourth Division, and stayed with the club for a total of eleven seasons. After leaving Barrow in 1971 Arrowsmith joined Northern Premier League club Netherfield, but returned to Barrow – who by then had been voted out of the Football ...

11Apr

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Netherland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Frits Flinkevleugel, footballer

Frederik Arnoldus "Frits" Flinkevleugel –a Dutch footballer who played as a right back – died on 10 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19. Born in Amsterdam, Flinkevleugel played for DWS and FC Amsterdam. He won the Dutch championship in 1964 with DWS. He also earned 11 caps for the Dutch national team between 1964 and 1967. Flinkevleugel owned a cigar shop in Amsterdam. He died of COVID-19 on 10 April 2020, aged 80.

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Miguel Jones, footballer

Miguel Jones Castillo –a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for SD Indautxu and Atlético Madrid during the 1950s and 1960s – passed away due to Covid-19 on 8 April 2020. Although born in Spanish Guinea, now known as Equatorial Guinea, Jones grew up in Bilbao. He began his career with local sides Barakaldo and Indautxu, where his teammates included the veteran Lezama and another emerging young player, Jesús María Pereda. Jones and Pereda, and later a third Indautxu player, José Eulogio Gárate, were all controversially rejected by Athletic Bilbao because the club's signing policy required for them to be born in Biscay; he maintained throughout his life that his rejection was not due to racism, as the other shunn...

8Apr

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Francesco La Rosa, footballer

Francesco La Rosa –an Italian footballer who played as a forward and competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics – died from Covid-19 on 8 April 2020.

5Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Tom Dempsey, footballer

Thomas John Dempsey ‑ an American professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers and Buffalo Bills – succumbed to Covid-19 on April 4, 2020. Unlike the "soccer style" approach which was becoming more and more widely used during his career, Dempsey's kicking style was the then-standard straight-toe style. With the Saints in 1970, he made a 63-yard field goal, setting an NFL record which stood for over 40 years. Dempsey was born in Milwaukee and attended high school and college in Southern California. He attended high school at San Dieguito High School and played college football at Palomar College. He was born with no toes on his right f...