Scott Vermillion, the former MLS player who died in 2020 of alcohol and prescription drug poisoning, was posthumously diagnosed with CTE. He's the first U.S. professional soccer player with a public case of CTE.
Scott Vermillion in action for the Kansas City Wizards in 1999. Photo: Matthew Ashton/Empics via Getty Images
Former MLS player Scott Vermillion, who died in 2020 at age 44 of alcohol and prescription drug poisoning, was posthumously diagnosed with CTE.He's the first American professional soccer player with a public case of CTE, a disease far more common — at least publicly — in former football players.Vermillion, a high school and college All-American from Kansas, played in MLS from 1998 to 2001 before retiring due to an ankle injury.
"When I met Scott, he was a vibrant, outgoing pro athlete, super fun," Cami Jones, Vermillion's ex-wife and mother of his two children,"Soccer is clearly a risk for CTE — not as much as football, but clearly a risk," said Ann McKee, the director of Boston University's CTE Center, which provided Vermillion's diagnosis.
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