Unusual: an Irish club "killed" one of its players to suspend a match

According to the TV channel RTE, the incident occurred last Friday when the management of the Ballybrack team informed the Leinster Senior League of the death of Fernando La Fuente in a road accident occurred the previous night at the return of training.

Thus, the league suspended the match against Arklow Town. In addition, all other teams in the tournament honored the presumed deceased with a minute of silence before each game. Several clubs in the league have expressed "their deepest condolences" to their colleagues and to the La Fuente family.

However, Ballybrack calculated that the body of the deceased had been sent to Spain the day after the accident. But in no hospital or medical facility has found trace of the player in question.

Finally, after examining the social networks of teammates Fernando La Fuente, he discovered that the "deceased" had not suffered any accident but returned to Spain about four or five weeks ago.

"Honestly, we do not know why they did it" because "it seems extreme" to claim the death of a player "to skip a match, while" we act in good faith "and even" we made a minute of silence for this boy "" It's absolutely ridiculous, "they said.

From Ballybrack, they acknowledged their mistake and said they fired the employee responsible for giving the news.