Deceased Sparta icon Wout Holverda got dementia due to football career

Former football player Wout Holverda (63) who died in December suffered from serious dementia due to his sports career. Specialists from the Amsterdam UMC have concluded this after they examined the brain of the former Sparta Rotterdam professional postmortem, writes. NRC† Never before has a Dutch footballer been so strongly linked between a sports career and dementia.

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