Before COVID vaccinations, the average number of cardiac arrests in European football leagues was 29 per year

The current annual average is now 1,598 cardiac arrests among European footballers, of which 1,101 were fatal. The statement of the famous American heart surgeon and favorite of conspiracy theorists around the world, Peter McCullough, is widely circulated on social networks. Note that statistics on professional active football players in Europe, according to open data, contain a significantly smaller (several times) number of cardiac arrests than the data announced by McCullough, while there are also football players who had several cardiac arrests per year.