Scott Vermillion (December 23, 1976 – December 25, 2020) was an American professional soccer player from Olathe, Kansas, who played for the Kansas City Wizards and Colorado Rapids.[1][2][3] He entered the league in 1998 as a member of Generation Adidas, then known as Project 40. He was a Third Team All American in his junior year at the University of Virginia before joining Project 40.[4] In his final season at UVA the team finished as runner up to UCLA in the 1997 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.

He died on December 25, 2020, at the age of 44 from acute alcohol and prescription drug poisoning.[5] In 2022, Boston University examined his brain and found that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Vermillion was the first soccer player to have been diagnosed with CTE posthumously.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Scott Vermillion".
  2. ^ "Statistics". Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Scott Vermillion". KC Legends. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
  4. ^ "MLS: Four More players join Project 40".
  5. ^ "Sporting offers condolences on passing of Scott Vermillion". Sporting Kansas City. January 4, 2021. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  6. ^ Keh, Andrew (June 28, 2022). "A Diagnosis Brings C.T.E. Into American Pro Soccer". The New York Times. Retrieved June 28, 2022.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Vermillion
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