Not definitely supported by professional soccer player deaths.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playingFourteen 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.