Dutch former football player Wout Holverda got dementia due to sports career

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

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