The sporting names who passed away in 2025 | Denis Law | George Foreman | Diogo Jota

Описание: Agnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor and the oldest living Olympic medal winner, died on January 2nd at 103. She won a total of 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics, including five golds, for Hungary at the 1952 Helsinki Games and the 1956 Melbourne Games.

Denis Law, the Manchester United and Scotland great, passed away on January 17th at 84. The only Scottish player to win the Ballon d’Or, Law was diagnosed with dementia in 2021, He is forever linked with Bobby Charlton and George Best, the three-pronged strike force that led United to English league titles in 1965 and ’67 and the European Cup in 1968 — a first for an English club.

Ex-Formula 1 team owner and media personality Eddie Jordan lost his battle with prostate and bladder cancer at 76 on March 20th. He ran his own Jordan team in the 1990s and 2000s in F1 and became a popular pundit on TV after selling the team in 2005.

George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight who lost the “Rumble in the Jungle” to Muhammad Ali before his inspiring second act as a 45-year-old champion and a successful businessman, died on March 21st. He was 76.

Leo Beenhakker, the Dutch soccer coach who led two national teams at World Cups and won three league titles with Real Madrid, died on April 4th at 82. He coached Ajax in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s — winning two Dutch league titles, and a third with its fierce rival Feyenoord — and three straight La Liga titles with Madrid from 1987 to ’89. In the Netherlands he is credited with calling the iconic European Cup trophy “the cup with the big ears” though it was a title that eluded him.

Former Pittsburgh Pirates hard-hitting outfielder Dave Parker passed away on June 28th at 74. He was set to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame the following month. Nicknamed “the Cobra,” the 6-foot-5 Parker made his major league debut in 1973 and played 19 seasons, 11 for the Pirates. He was the NL MVP in 1978, won a World Series with Pittsburgh a year later and then won another championship in 1989 with the Oakland Athletics.

Liverpool player Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva were killed in a car accident in Spain on July 3rd when the Lamborghini they were in veered off a road and burst into flames near the northwestern city of Zamora. Jota’s death came weeks after the 28-year-old forward married Rute Cardoso while on vacation from a long season where he helped Liverpool win the Premier League title.