NEWS: Fernando Lafuente, the absurd story of the Spanish footballer left for dead in Ireland

Fernando Lafuente is alive although he "has witnessed his own death".

The Spanish footballer was unintentionally at the center of a scandal in Irish football when a club he belonged to officially announced his death last week.

The absurdity of this story is that Ballybrack FC reported the alleged death of Lafuente in a road accident to the officials of the Leinster Senior League Regional Championship, to delay the party.

But the news was relayed by other clubs in the league to the point that some came to give a minute of silence in tribute to the memory of the Spanish footballer.

"In my job, they started sending me all these items and that's when I learned that he was dead," Lafuente said on the radio. Irish public radio RTE, after being informed of all the unrest that had occurred around him on Wednesday.

Disappointment

Lafuente, who no longer plays for Ballybrack, said the club had contacted him last week to inform him that he could hear about an accident in which he would have been involved.

"I knew I was going to see a story about me, but I thought it would be a broken leg or something of the sort."

"I was at home yesterday after work, playing video games, when they told me:" You're famous, "he recalls.

The "Liffey Wanderers" observed a minute of silence in his "memorial" after "his death in a traffic accident on his return from training on Thursday".

"I did not care because I was not there anymore, and if I did not have trouble, why should I care about it?" These little lies are all told from time to time.

But the surprise was that it was not a broken leg, but something much more serious.

He is aware that the idea that a man in his twenties, "with all his life in front of her", dies in a road accident is very "sad", but that in one way it is fun because it was like "witnessing my own death".

The Ballybracks game against Arklow Town was suspended and the league published an obituary in the Irish press offering condolences to the player's family and club.

The club acknowledged that he had committed a "serious and unacceptable mistake" and investigated what happened.

Lafuente added that after hearing the news circulating, he contacted the club and apologized for what was going on.

"My wife received information on Facebook, but she knew it pretty much, but yes I had to call my mother immediately because she did not know anything"he explained.

"We are going to kill Fernando"

The league president, David Moran, told RTE that Ballybracks' secretary had resigned this week and that they had also opened an investigation as part of the agency's disciplinary procedure.

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"Live and kicking", the Daily Mail of Ireland has published an article on the death of Lafuente.

Lafuente does not believe that all the chaos at the start was a bad intention, but that it was surely something that became out of control.

"It seems like they had to get rid of a football match and the brilliant idea of ​​someone was: we will kill Fernando who is no longer thereI do not think anything is happening, "said the official, currently without equipment, on the program" El Larguero "of the Spanish radio station Cadena Ser.

"I think they have trouble recruiting players," he said.

"They do not play football professionally, many of them have normal jobs and some do it in the UK, I think that was the problem, nothing more."

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