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| Liam Wood: Football death boy had heart defect | |
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| A 13-year-old boy who died shortly after scoring a goal in a football match died of natural causes, a coroner has recorded. | A 13-year-old boy who died shortly after scoring a goal in a football match died of natural causes, a coroner has recorded. |
| Liam Wood collapsed on a pitch just after he had scored for AFC Saints on fields in Knutton, Staffordshire, in January. | Liam Wood collapsed on a pitch just after he had scored for AFC Saints on fields in Knutton, Staffordshire, in January. |
| An inquest heard Liam, from Chesterton, had a defective artery in his heart. | An inquest heard Liam, from Chesterton, had a defective artery in his heart. |
| Hundreds of people paid tribute to Liam, who went to St John Fisher Saint Catholic College, after his death. | Hundreds of people paid tribute to Liam, who went to St John Fisher Saint Catholic College, after his death. |
| The coroner for North Staffordshire, Ian Smith, heard that Liam had been playing for the Sunday League side when he was taken off at half-time because he felt tired. | |
| Goal celebration | |
| He came back on mid-way through the second half but his family noted he was not running as much as he usually would when playing. | |
| He scored a goal, the inquest heard, and ran to a corner, sliding to the ground as a celebration. | |
| However, on his his way back to the half way line he collapsed and was rushed to hospital. | |
| A pathologist told the inquest Liam, who played football four times a week, had an extremely rare heart disorder. | |
| His arteries were connected to the same place in his heart, unlike most people's whose arteries are connected to different parts of the heart. | |
| In most cases the defect is only discovered after death, the pathologist said, and that is cannot be picked up as it would be undetected in normal scans. | |
| His mother, Julie Bostock, said Liam had always been full of life. | |
| "He was always playing football," she said. |