... "I wanted it [African Footballer of the Year award] so badly, even in the '80s," Abedi told GTV Sports Plus. ... Piotr Rocki, 46, Polish footballer (Polonia Warsaw, Górnik Zabrze, Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski), ruptured aneurysm. ... 2020 has been a year like no other in our lifetime. Virtual sport takes off as athletes move online. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order by surname or pseudonym. England defender Lucy Bronze has been named BBC Women's Footballer of the Year for a second time in three years. In 1992-93, he went a step further to help the club win the Uefa Champions League . Mariya … His exploits earned him the BBC African Footballer of the Year award in 1991. Sadio Mané was named African Footballer of the Year for 2019 on Tuesday after winning the Champions League with Liverpool and leading Senegal to the Africa Cup of Nations final. Mane is only the second Senegalese footballer to win the African Player of the Year award after El Hadji Diouf. Article continues below The following deaths of notable individuals occurred in 2020. The four-time African Footballer of the Year reflected on the global challenges facing the world and the role sports can play to unite people . 1/06/2020. May 08, 2020 3:10 pm A Turkish football player in the northwestern province of Bursa admitted to murdering his 5-year-old son, 11 days after officials ruled the toddler’s death was due to breathing difficulties without suspecting foul play.

Bronze fended off the likes of Arsenal's Vivianne Miedema and Chelsea's Sam Kerr as well as World Cup-winning Americans Megan Rapinoe and Julie Ertz to …