Editing Football player (section)

=== Italy ===
Until the 2000s a very limited number of formal studies has been published on mortality from all causes in soccer players, despite the high interest of the public to the matter.
An extended study held in Italy between 1975 and 2003 on a total of 5.389 players, aged 14–35 years, highlighted that, while the mortality for [[cancer]] and [[cardiovascular disease]]s among the football players cohort was significantly lower than the general Italian population, the "mortality rates for [[amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]] and [[car accident]]s were significantly higher than expected, and for ALS the risk is 18 times than expected."<ref>{{cite book | first = Emanuela | last= Taioli | url = https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/17/6/600/475352?searchresult=1 | title = All causes mortality in male professional soccer player | journal =  [[European Journal of Public Health]] | volume = 17 | issue = 6 | date = December 2007 | pages = 600–604 | doi = 10.1093/eurpub/ckm035 | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]| pmid= 17434875 }}</ref>