WDavid Alfonso Arellano Moraga was a Chilean footballer, founder and martyr of the Colo Colo football club. Played as lefty Insider, was scorer of 1926 South American Championship and is considered one of the best Chilean football players in history.
WAlbert Dominique Ebossé Bodjongo Dika was a Cameroonian footballer who played in Cameroon, Malaysia and Algeria.
WRoberto Chery was a Uruguayan football goalkeeper who played during the days of amateur sport in the Uruguayan Primera División (1900–1931).
WRenato Curi was an Italian footballer who played as a midfielder. He is best known for his tenure as a Perugia mainstay in the 1970s until his death during a league game against Juventus.
WHrvoje Ćustić was a Croatian footballer who played as a midfielder.
WEimert "Epi" Drost was an association football player and manager from the Netherlands, best known for his time with FC Twente.
WPatrick Claude Ekeng Ekeng was a Cameroonian professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He had two international caps for his country's national team, whom he represented at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.
WMiklós "Miki" Fehér was a Hungarian professional footballer who played as a striker.
WSergei Aleksandrovich Filippenkov was a Russian football manager and player.
WMarc-Vivien Foé was a Cameroonian professional footballer, who played as a defensive midfielder for both club and country. Foé had success in France's Division 1 and England's Premier League, before his sudden death, due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, during an international match, an event which shocked the football community worldwide. He was posthumously decorated with the Commander of the National Order of Valour and had his jersey number 23 retired by Manchester City.
WMatthew John Gadsby was an English professional footballer. Born in Sutton Coldfield, he played for Walsall, Mansfield Town, Kidderminster Harriers, Forest Green and Hinckley United as a defender and midfielder.
WJosé Antonio Gallardo Marín was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
WNikola Gazdić-Janjčić was a footballer who played for Hajduk Split. Gazdić was the first Hajduk player to score more than 100 goals. He died of late stage tuberculosis after playing against Građanski Zagreb, Hajduk's greatest rival at the time, in a 2-1 victory. He scored 106 goals in 91 matches.
WCătălin George Hîldan was a Romanian association football midfielder who played for FC Dinamo București and the Romanian national team. In 2006, he was named one of the 100 Greatest Romanians in a nationwide poll.
WChoirul Huda was an Indonesian professional footballer and civil servant.
WRobert Mark "Robbie" James was a Welsh international footballer who played for many teams including Swansea City, Stoke City and Queens Park Rangers. He represented his country on 47 occasions over a period of ten years, scoring a total of seven goals.
WNaoki Matsuda was a Japanese football player, who played as a central defender for the Japanese national team.
WPiermario Morosini was an Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. On 14 April 2012, during a match between Pescara and Livorno, Morosini suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on the pitch.
WJacobus Theodorus Wilhelmus "Co" Prins was a Dutch former association football player. He played 184 matches for football club Ajax Amsterdam from 1959 to 1966 where he scored 60 goals. He played for the German football team 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the mid-sixties, being then one of the few foreign football professionals in Germany.
WAntonio José Puerta Pérez was a Spanish professional footballer who played solely for Sevilla.
WSimeon Raleigh was an English professional footballer.
WBernardo Salim Ribeiro was a Brazilian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. As a young player he moved to Europe, where he played in Italy, Albania, and Finland. He also played in the Australian first division. Upon returning to Brazil, he died in the aftermath of a match for an amateur club after suffering cardiac arrest.
WJohn Thomson was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Celtic and the Scotland national football team. He died as a result of an accidental collision with Rangers player Sam English during an Old Firm match at Ibrox.
WAlbert Van Coile was a Belgian footballer. He never played for any other team than Cercle Brugge. He also appeared once in the Belgian shirt.
WWilliam Walker was a Scottish footballer who played as an inside right.
WRicky Yacobi was an Indonesian football player. He usually played as a striker and was one of the most prominent Indonesian footballers of the 1980s. His nickname was the "Indonesian Paul Breitner". He made a name for himself at the 1986 Asian Games when he led the Indonesian national football team. In 1988, Japanese club Matsushita bought him, but he failed to make an impact with the team because of the climate and weather conditions. He only played 6 games for the side, scoring one goal.
WKonstantin Viktorovich Yeryomenko, often transliterated as Eremenko was a Russian futsal player who was named the greatest futsal player of the 20th century.