The "dead" Spain was alive, recognizes the Irish club that has committed a "serious mistake"

The club of Irish amateur football Ballybrack FC had to ask a little humiliating excuses on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 after announcing that one of his players, the Spanish Fernando Nuno Lafuente, was dead.

This team of third division of the South of Dublin had reported that they did not feel strong enough to play their championship game against the Arklow last weekend because of the death of the player in one motorcycle accident Friday morning.

But the Spaniards, who had moved in Galwayin the west of the country, I was alive and kicking.

"It has attracted the attention of the club and players as well as the management team on a serious miscalculation resulting from the correspondence sent by a member of the senior management team to the Senior Leinster League, "he said. Ballybrack by apologizing to your Facebook page.

"This serious and unacceptable error was committed by a person who has experienced serious personal difficulties without any other member of the club being aware of it," he added.

According to Irish public broadcaster RTÉ, the club secretary left office after the scandal.

"You are a star"

Ballybrack did not specify whether the imbroglio was due to a simple mistake or if it was a stratagem to cancel the match. But he said that he had contacted Lafuente "to confirm his comings and goings and his well-being".

"We are grateful to you for accepting our apologies," he said.

The player who press Irish works for a IT company, seems to have accepted the news of his death with Serenity and good mood.

"It's fun for me because I was able to witness my own death," he told Irish radio, explaining that he knew what had happened Tuesday when he was called while he was playing a video game after his day's work.

"They said, 'you're a star,'" he says.

Making us think that it was a premeditated act, Source He reported that he had been contacted Ballybrack last week to warn him that he could hear him talk about the news.

But he had never imagined that it would go so far: "I thought they would say that I broke a leg or something," said the resurrected man.

"A bit extreme"

The authorities of Irish amateur league They opened an investigation and said they were confused by what happened.

"Honestly, we do not know why they did it," said the president of the Senior Leinster League, David Moran, at the RTÉ. "It seems a bit extreme to do something like that to cancel a match," he added.

Last weekend, all games in this division were preceded by a minute of silence. One of the clubs, the Liffey Wanderersdisclosed in Twitter a photo of the tribute given at his party and expressing his "sincere condolences", and the league even issued a message of condolence in an Irish newspaper on Monday.

"We act in good faith," said Moran. "On the weekends, we spent a minute of silence for this young man – it's absolutely ridiculous."

Moran explained by phone that he had contacted the club to convey his condolences, be able to attend the funeral and ask what they could do to help the family.

The answer from a Ballybrack official left him with the fly behind the ear: the body had been repatriated to Spain on Saturday.

"Immediately, this triggered our alarm signals," he says. "How could he have died on Friday morning and sent to Spain on Saturday?"