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The Irish amateur football club Ballybrack FC had to ask on Wednesday a humiliating apology after announcing the death of one of its players, the Spanish Fernando Nuno Lafuente.
The third division team from south Dublin said they did not feel strong enough to play their league match against Arklow last weekend because of the death of the player in a motorcycle accident on Friday morning.
But the Spaniard, who had settled in Galway, in the west of the country, was doing well.
"It has attracted the attention of the club and players as well as the management team on a serious miscalculation resulting from correspondence sent by a member of the senior management team to the Leinster League, "said Ballybrack apologized. 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 the Irish public TV channel RTÉ, the club's secretary left office after the scandal.
"You are a star"
Ballybrack did not specify whether the imbroglio was due to a simple mistake or whether it was a ploy to cancel the match. But he said that he had contacted Lafuente "to confirm his fate and well-being".
"We are grateful to you for accepting our apologies," he said.
The player, who according to the Irish press works for a computer company, seems to have accepted the news of his death with serenity and good humor.
"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.
Thinking that it was a premeditated act, Lafuente said that he had been contacted by Ballybrack last week to warn him that he might be in danger. hear about him on 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 the Irish amateur league opened an investigation and declared themselves disconcerted by what happened.
"Honestly, we do not know why they did it," David Moran, president of the Leinster Senior League, told 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 Wanderers, has posted a Twitter photo of the tribute made during his evening and expressed his "heartfelt condolences". The league even published Monday a message of condolence in an Irish newspaper.
"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?"
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