{"id":8737,"date":"2025-09-26T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=8737"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:39:57","slug":"football-player-dead-at-21-after-suffering-significant-brain-injury-during-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=8737","title":{"rendered":"Football player dead at 21 after suffering \u2018significant brain injury\u2019 during match"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr data-start=\"59\" data-end=\"62\" \/>\n<p data-start=\"64\" data-end=\"228\">The football community is mourning the loss of former Arsenal youth player Billy Vigar, who has died at age 21 after suffering a severe brain injury during a match.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"230\" data-end=\"435\">Vigar, playing for semi-professional side Chichester City, collided with a concrete wall during Saturday\u2019s game. He was placed in an induced coma and underwent surgery, but passed away on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"573\">Chichester City confirmed his death, requesting privacy for his family and paying tribute: \u201cRest in peace Billy. Forever in our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"575\" data-end=\"731\">Saturday\u2019s match against Lewes has been postponed. Vigar\u2019s family said they are devastated, adding: \u201cThis happened while he was playing the sport he loved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The football community is mourning the loss of former Arsenal youth player Billy Vigar, who has died at age 21 after suffering a severe brain injury during a match. Vigar, playing for semi-professional side Chichester City, collided with a concrete wall during Saturday\u2019s game. He was placed in an induced coma and underwent surgery, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=8737\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Football player dead at 21 after suffering \u2018significant brain injury\u2019 during match&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8739,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions\/8739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}