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People We Will Miss: Significant Deaths In Global Sports Business This Year

Here is a list of sports luminaries who died in '14.

Former Portuguese footballer Eusebio. (Jan. 5).

World Boxing Council President Jose Sulaiman (Jan. 16).

Former Spanish footballer and national team coach Luis Aragonés (Feb. 1).

Indian sports journalist K.K. Nair (Feb. 11).

Former Preston North End and England winger Tom Finney (Feb. 14).

Former New Zealand national rugby union team coach and Super Rugby side Wellington Hurricanes coach Frank Oliver (March 16).

Former boxing promoter Mickey Duff (March 23).

Journalist and sports broadcasting rights agent Ian Frykberg (March 30).

Former Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova (April 25).

Former British tennis player Elena Baltacha (May 4).

Former Japan Sumo Association Chair Kaiketsu Masateru (May 18).

Triple F1 champion Jack Brabham (May 19).

ManU and NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers Owner Malcolm Glazer (May 28).

Former UEFA General Secretary and former Scottish FA CEO David Taylor (June 24).

Former Real Madrid player Alfredo Di Stéfano (July 7).

Olympic Gold Medalist Alice Coachman Davis (first black woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal) (July 14).

Argentine FA President Julio Grondona (July 30).

Former Ukrainian side Dynamo Kiev midfielder Andrei Bal (Aug. 9).

Scottish radio broadcaster James Alexander Gordon (Aug. 18).

Cameroonian footballer Albert Ebossé (Aug. 23).

Chelsea Life President Richard Attenborough (Aug. 24).

Peruvian football league (ADFP) President Luis de Souza Ferreira (Sep. 6).

Chilean base jumper Ramon Rojas (Sep. 20).

British Olympic athletics Silver Medalist Dorothy Tyler (Sep. 25).

Former Nippon Professional Baseball team Fukuoka Daiei Hawks catcher Nobuyuki Kagawa (Sep. 26).

Former Scottish football player Sammy Reid (Nov. 9).

Former Australian cricketer Ian Craig (Nov. 16).

Former Chelsea, Middlesbrough and Wrexham Manager John Neal (Nov. 23).

Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes (Nov. 27).

Former Tottenham and England defender Ron Henry (Dec. 27).

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