After the death of Junior Malanda: VfL Wolfsburg between everyday life and mourning – Daily Mirror

15:08 clock Christian Otto

VfL Wolfsburg tries to look forward after the death of Junior Malanda. The players are psychological care. Meanwhile, there is new evidence of what happened.

It was a spooky atmosphere. About 2,000 people had gathered on Sunday in a gloomy winter weather to show their sympathy for Junior Malanda. Silently and with serious look they formed a funeral march. Fans, players and club Represented the VfL Wolfsburg is noted the great concern after the death of the Belgian soccer players. “These are bad days for us. But we need to look ahead, “says general manager Klaus Allofs. While further mourned around the stadium in Wolfsburg and more and more fans sign a condolence book, the VfL team tries to return to everyday life.

Just one day after the departure to Cape Town was at the Cape of Good Hope to the first practice session. The assets not want to comment on the death of Malanda.

players, coaches and club management have jointly decided that it would be useful to quickly build distance to their homeland and to the tragic accident on Saturday. Viewed objectively, this means that the preparation for the second round of the Bundesliga must not be neglected, despite the painful loss. The 20-year-old Malanda was in a VW Touareg on the way to Wolfsburg or to Brunswick, where the Wolfsburg team is left for South Africa, died in an accident.

How the Bielefeld police spokesman Achim Ridder confirmed on request, Malanda had sat on the back seat of his car provided by the club and was not wearing a seatbelt when driving at excessive speed. When it rains, 80 km / h are prescribed at the crash site. The SUV drove off in gusty wind and wet weather from the road and had several times beat – the investigator’s view, because a tempo, not the weather was fair. Driver and passenger were two befriended with Malanda, Belgian footballer. You could leave the hospital on Sunday again. Media reports, which should have had no driver’s license to a result of the driver, the police denied.

The workup of a bad day and incidents on Highway 2 near Porta Westfalica will be with for a long time the main characters of VfL Wolfsburg. During the training days in South Africa psychological support to the players and the coaching staff should be offered as soon as possible. Apparently, the knowledge is following the events surrounding the suicide of Robert Enke matured to professional athletes, despite enormous high load capacity with deep sorrow should not be left alone. As the former goalkeeper of Hannover 96 had plagued five years ago by depression suicide, which completely dismayed team of Lower Saxony was sporting fall off the track and lost a league game after another. Several professionals of the 96 teams were then made by the offer of their club use to get help from experienced psychologists in processing the witnessed.

Junior Malanda was not strapped in his fatal accident

In Wolfsburg and Bielefeld now that the agencies consider inevitable has begun. The public prosecutor takes proceedings against the driver of 20 years old, crashed car on involuntary manslaughter. Whether the corpse of Malanda is autopsied, is not fixed yet. Such processes interfere with the grief and worry considerably, particularly in the social networks like Twitter and Facebook in part for bitterness. Malanda was a very popular professional in Wolfsburg. “A wolf forever” – as a fan of the injured midfielder has labeled a photo of professionals. JM and 19: The initials and number of Malanda play back nearly all of condolence that are placed in front of the VIP entrance of the Wolfsburg stadium, a central role.

The rapid return to everyday life of paid sport provides for the players of VfL Wolfsburg that already for Wednesday in Cape Town a test match is scheduled. The team of coach Dieter Hecking, return to the Bundesliga round start on January 30 hosts for Bayern Munich, competes against South African club Ajax Cape Town. Around the home stadium Wolfsburg, meanwhile, observed the normal procedure. This also means that within sight of the VfL Arena off-road vehicles are driven on a test track to learn their susceptibility to wind and rain. Even as the Wolfsburg fans mourned on Sunday at Malanda, Touareg came there to use. That the test track for off-road car was still in operation, formed a bitter contrast to what is happening around the ground. There, the silent funeral march in memory ended at the fun-loving Malanda with a long applause.