His long-time partner Daisy Morrison shared the tragic news on her Instagram page, only weeks after the Southampton academy player proposed to her from hospital.
Ms Morrison wrote on Friday: ‘The hardest goodbye. Yesterday I lost my whole life, my fiance, my soulmate, my person, my entire world. I always hoped and prayed this day would never, ever come.
True heartbreak is real, my heart physically hurts and I’ve never felt pain like this.’
At 17, Mr Cull was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare bone and soft-tissue disease that develops in the supporting tissues of the body.
He had played for the Southampton’s U23 team and earned two caps for the England youth team before his diagnosis.
Mr. Cull (right) emailed Ms. Morrison last month with the following proposition: “Marry me? Daisy This isn’t precisely what I had in mind for you when I wanted to tell you how I felt about you and how I would ask you, but I’ve had this planned since last year!
In her post, Ms Morrison wrote: ‘You fought until the very end my darling, I know you did absolutely everything you could to stay & despite suffering so bad, you kept going, that I will be forever grateful for, you never gave up, god just had his own plans.
‘One thing I can say for sure is that we made the most of every single second. You * both said we’d rather have met our soulmate and had less time than lived a whole lifetime without each other.’
In a post on August 18, Mr Cull, from Bournemouth, shared pictured of him with Ms Morrison, captioned ‘Marry me?’
The post read: ‘Daisy I’ve had this planned since last year… this isn’t exactly what I had in mind for you when I wanted to tell you how I felt about you & how I might ask you!
‘From the moment I met you I knew you were different in all the right ways, you changed me for the better. I met you [a] boy and I stand here now a man.
I don’t know a single person who would do what you’ve done and put up with what you have put up with and that’s how I know I would never want to spend my life without you.
‘I promise you I will fight with everything to be able to see you walk down that [aisle] & I promise to remind you of my love for you every single day for as long as I live.’
Mr Cull became a professional footballer through Southampton’s academy, joining their under 18 squad in 2015.
He was diagnosed with cancer three years later, in 2018, after sustaining what he thought was a dead leg during a Southampton FC youth match.
Ben Cull and Daisy Morrison, his girlfriend. Cull’s promising football career was cut short after he received a second cancer diagnosis. At the age of 17, he received his initial Ewing’s sarcoma diagnosis.
