I would like to know how often this happened pre-January 2021.
A male rugby player in
New Zealand
collapsed and died over the weekend during a match.The player collapsed and died during a festival match between Ruatoria City’s 2022 squad and a Ruatoria Centennial XV, the New Zealand
reported
.The player collapsed after some sort of “on-field incident,” the report said, but it gave no elaboration on what happened and if there was some sort of contact that preceded the player’s collapse.
The report said that there were “extensive efforts to save him” but that he ended up dying at the scene.
The match was canceled and “his body was removed from the pitch,” the report added.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/male-rugby-player-collapses-and-dies-during-match-report