Soccer Star’s Widow Pregnant With His Baby a Year After His Death

Carla Speight/Getty Images A widow of a former soccer star is pregnant through in vitro fertilization a year after his death. English professional soccer player Joe Thompson died at 36 in April 2025 from Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a blood cancer, after recovering from two prior cancer diagnoses in 2013 and 2017. The Rochdale AFC midfielder is survived by his wife, Chantelle Thompson, and daughters Thailula, 13, and Athena, 3. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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