Peter Kakos was a Melbourne

Melbourne

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-born Greek-Australian football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

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 player whose career was primarily centred around the Victorian Premier League

Victorian Premier League

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 as well as the National Soccer League

National Soccer League

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 with Gippsland Falcons

Gippsland Falcons

Gippsland Falcons SC were an Australian association football team based in Morwell, Australia. It was the sole rural Victorian entrant in the forerunner to the A-League, the National Soccer League...

 during the 1999/2000 season.

24 hours after Oakleigh Cannons

Oakleigh Cannons

Oakleigh Cannons Football Club is a football club based in the south-east Melbourne suburb of Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia. The club was formed in 1972 as the South Oakleigh Soccer Club by members of Oakleigh's Greek Australian community...

 defeated Whittlesea Zebras

Bulleen Zebras

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 on 14 May 2006, Peter Kakos died, twelve weeks short of his 29th birthday. After having been found unconscious at work, he was rushed to a Melbourne

Melbourne

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hospital where he died six days later in the early hours of Tuesday 16 May 2006. The cause of death was later determined to be a bacterial infection of the brain.