Ballycrack FC told the Leinster Senior League Fernando Nuno La-Fuente had died, when instead he had simply moved.
An Irish soccer club has been forced to apologize after mistakenly reporting one of their players as dead.
Ballybrack F. C., an amateur side based in Dublin, reported that Fernando Nuno La-Fuente had died in a motorcycle accident.
The team informed the Leinster Senior League, which agreed to postpone their game against Arklow Town on Saturday, while a minute’s silence was observed across the other matches in the same division.
The Leinster Senior League, however, has launched an investigation after it emerged on Tuesday that La-Fuente was indeed alive and well.
“It has come to the attention of both the club, senior players and the management team that a gross error of judgment has occurred emanating from correspondence sent from a member of the senior set-up management team to the Leinster Senior League,” Ballybrack said in a statement on Tuesday.
