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The Leinster Senior League has announced plans to investigate Ballybrack FC after the club falsely announced the death of one of its players last week.
Ballybrack FC was scheduled to play Arklow Town on Saturday afternoon, but the match was postponed after the South Dublin club informed the league that one of its players, the Spanish Fernando Nuno La-Fuante , died Thursday night in a traffic accident.
A minute of silence was held in the honor of the player at all the games of the Senor League of Leinster disputed this weekend.
The League announced Monday the death of the player in the Herald, offering his "sincere condolences" to his family and the club.
However, the League confirmed this afternoon that it had learned that the player was not dead and that he was back in Spain.
David Moran, president of the Leinster Senior League, told RTÉ Sport that the club's history began to deteriorate on Monday.
"We were told Friday morning at 8 am that the boy was dead.Their match was canceled against Arklow.And then the story started to collapse yesterday.
"We can not get confirmation from Ballybrack FC but we have received confirmation of the resignation of their secretary this afternoon.
"So, I had no choice but to issue this statement (below) because the original statement we sent to the Herald for Monday was gone.
"It's apparently in Spain, thank you to God, it's the good thing about this story.The boy did not die in a motorcycle accident last Thursday.He returned to Spain there are four or five weeks.
"The Leinster Senior League rang yesterday morning, we wanted to show our sympathy and go to Mbad and maybe meet the family and see what we could do to help in this horrible situation.
"And we were told that he had been repatriated by plane on Saturday, immediately it sounded the alarm.How do you want to die early Friday morning and be repatriated to Spain on Saturday?
"The situation began to deteriorate at that time, we rang and we could not get an answer."
"We checked the hospitals, we checked everywhere, nobody found anything about this young man, obviously some of his teammates published information on social networks, saying that he had returned to Spain four weeks ago.
"Honestly, we do not know why they did it.It seems a bit extreme to do something like that to get a match.All they had to say, is that They gave a gateway and that they were going to have their fine and that was the end of it.
"It's very extreme to play. We acted in good faith. We observed a minute of silence on weekends for this young boy. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Here is the statement that the League issued this afternoon, promising to investigate the issue.
"The Leinster Senior League acknowledges that the notification of the death of a Ballybrack FC player communicated to all member clubs and media partners is unfounded.
"The Leinster Senior League has always acted in good faith and when a representative of Ballybrack FC informed us of the death of a member player, we immediately presented our most sincere condolences and also shared the sad news with all the other LSL clubs, presenting their own condolences.
"We are happy to hear that the player is in good health and that he has returned to Spain, his native country.
"The Leinster Senior League will cooperate with all relevant agencies as part of the investigation into this case and the league will also address this issue through internal discipline procedures.
"The Leinster Senior League wishes to apologize most sincerely for any distress caused by notifying clubs of the disappearance of a valuable player.
"The league acted in good faith with the information provided by the club and was only concerned about the well-being and the interest of those affected by the" tragedy "reported.
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