An amateur football team from Dublin has apologized for a “gross error of judgement” after falsely reporting that one of its players, Fernando Nuno La Fuente, had died on Thursday.
A death notice was posted in a local newspaper, a game was postponed and teams across the Leinster Senior League in Ireland held a minute’s silence to honor the memory of La Fuente, who was thought to have been killed in a car crash last week.
Fernando Nuno La Fuente on RTÉ Radio 1 now: "I'm finding it a little bit funny because basically I'm not dead." https://t.co/71POsvi3mc
— Redmond Shannon (@RedShannon) November 28, 2018
The club said the person in question was fired after an emergency meeting.
Dublin soccer club fake player’s death to get match called off.
⚽️minutes silence
⚽️black armbands
⚽️match postponed
⚽️condolences expressed#Ballybrack said Fernando Nuno La Fuente had died in car crash in order to get fixture postponed https://t.co/k2Td8rsdSk— Darran Marshall (@DarranMarshall) November 27, 2018
The league offered its “sincerest apologies for any distress caused as a result of notifying clubs as to the demise of a valued player.”
What a crazy story.
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