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Football Club Announce Death Of Their Own Player To Cancel Game

Football Club Announce Death Of Their Own Player To Cancel Game

The team faked his death to call off the fixture.

Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar

An amateur football team invented a fake story about the death of one of their own players in a truly bizarre and tasteless incident.

Dublin-based football club Ballybrack FC announced the passing of Fernando Nuno La-Fuenta.

They falsely claimed he died in a traffic accident.

Image: Facebook
Image: Facebook

Ballybrack's fixture against Arklow Town on Saturday was subsequently postponed, and a minute's silence was held before other matches across the league.

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Image: Facebook

But the team have since apologised for making up the death of their own player.

He is in fact alive as he returned to Spain. The league even posted a death notice in a Irish newspaper.

Image: Irish Mirror
Image: Irish Mirror

Ballybrack released a statement saying a 'gross error of judgement has occurred' while confirming the person involved has been relieved of his duties.

"It has come to the attention of both the club, senior players and the management team that a gross error of judgement has occurred emanating from correspondence sent from a member of the senior set-up management team to the Leinster Senior League," the clubs statement reads via BBC.

"An emergency meeting was held and the person in question has been relieved of all footballing duties, within Ballybrack FC, its senior team and roles within the club itself.

"The club has contacted Fernando to confirm his whereabouts, wellbeing and are thankful for his acceptance of our apology on this matter.

"This grave and unacceptable mistake was completely out of character and was made by a person who has been experiencing severe personal difficulties unbeknownst to any other members of the club.

"At this stage we can only offer our sincere apologies to the Leinster Senior League, our opponents Arklow Town FC and the host of clubs and football people who made contact with us or offered messages of support in recent days."

League chairman David Moran shed more light on the situation.

"The young lad didn't die in a motorbike accident last Thursday. He went back to Spain four or five weeks ago apparently," he told RTL.

"The Leinster Senior League rang yesterday morning. We wanted to show our sympathies and go to the Mass and maybe meet the family and see what we could do to help in this horrible situation.

"And we were told he was flown back to Spain on the Saturday. Straight away, that rang alarm bells for us. How would you die early on Friday morning and be flown back to Spain on the Saturday?

"We checked the hospitals, we checked everywhere. Nobody could find anything about this young fella. Obviously, some of his team-mates released stuff on social media saying he went back to Spain four weeks ago."

The incident is under investigation from The Leinster Senior League.

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Topics: Ireland, Football News, Football