Not definitely supported by professional soccer player deaths.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playing

Fourteen this year by October with three months left in 2021 is a record, but a brief perusal indicates that these deaths first hit double digits in 2010, as many as twelve in a single year since then.

Looking at the site, Way back in the 1800’s professional soccer players were dying from tetanus. Every one of the recent deaths linked were heart-related, the guy usually collapsing on the field.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744