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Dean Windass

Actor

Dean Windass is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played spells at Bradford City and contributed to his hometown team Hull City's promotion to the Premier League in 2008. Windass was diagnosed with Stage 2 (early) dementia, attributed to heading footballs, in 2024. While having no symptoms, he had been persuaded to take a diagnostic scan as a precaution. Afterwards he was active persuading ten to fifteen other former players to be scanned. This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Dean_Windass, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

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  • 1980Career Start

Biography

Dean Windass is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played spells at Bradford City and contributed to his hometown team Hull City's promotion to the Premier League in 2008. Windass was diagnosed with Stage 2 (early) dementia, attributed to heading footballs, in 2024. While having no symptoms, he had been persuaded to take a diagnostic scan as a precaution. Afterwards he was active persuading ten to fifteen other former players to be scanned. This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Dean_Windass, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Filmography

Poster for Newsnight
Unknown
1980
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