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Irish football club ‘faked death’ of their own player to request match postponement
Ballybrack FC are facing an investigation from Ireland’s Leinster Senior League after allegedly claiming that Spanish player Fernando Nuno La-Fuenta died in a traffic accident, when he had flown home to his native country.
The chairman of the Leinster Senior Football League, David Moran, said that it had been informed by one of its clubs of the death of a player on Thursday of last week.
Reports state that the Dublin team informed league officials on Friday that La-Fuenta had passed away in a car accident while driving home from training the previous evening.
That's Liffey Wanderers holding a minute's silence for a player Ballybrack FC said had died in a car crash but was actually alive and well in Spain. pic.twitter.com/uF0ofGILg1
— PJ Browne (@P_J_Browne) November 27, 2018
In fact, La-Fuenta had returned home to Spain several weeks prior. There is no suggestion that the player was aware of the club claiming that he had passed away.
Teams and officials in the league held a minute’s silence for the player and his family before each of last weekend’s fixtures, in which black armbands were also worn by players. Furthermore, death notices appeared in local newspapers which have since been rescinded.
This has to be the most bizzare story of 2018 in football.
A couple of days ago Ballybrack FC, of the Leinster Senior League, announced that their player, Fernando Nuno La-Fuante passed away in a tragic car accident.
Fast forward to tonight, it was all made up!
