Sunday, January 11, 2015

Junior Malanda: mourning for injured professional football player – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Wolfsburg – After the death of Junior Malanda sadness and dismay at VfL Wolfsburg and throughout the Bundesliga are great. The 20 years old professional of the table Second came on Saturday in a traffic accident on the A2 near Porta Westfalica killed.

Malanda sat at the car accident in heavy rain in the back seat of an SUV. As the vehicle skidded and crashed into a tree, VfL professional was according to the police hurled Bielefeld from the vehicle . Malanda died at the scene.

The club had its first response in the evening the scheduled departure of the team initially canceled the training camp in South Africa . Manager Klaus Allofs and the club management will now decide on Sunday whether the team competes with the travel delay or whether it fails completely.

Club, colleagues and fans shocked

“We are all deeply saddened and our disbelief can hardly put into words. We all loved him. He was the good spirit of our team and a fun-loving person, “Allofs said in a statement the association. He described the Belgian youth international as “excellent footballer” , who was just beginning its development. “We still can not believe that he is no longer with us always. Our thoughts are this difficult time with his family and loved ones,” Allofs added.



“I can not describe what is going on in me and how I feel,” said coach Dieter Hecking . “We had another conversation with Junior yesterday and he was full of confidence and zest for the second half. It was a pleasure to work with junior and we had together much before. I am unspeakably sad “.

The Supervisory Board Chairman Francisco Javier Garcia Sanz spoke of a great loss and said. “We are all shocked deeply sad and totally There are things, and I speak as a father, you will never experience as a parent, and then yet to happen. ”

“Belgian football loses one of its greatest talents”

On the evening of himself many fans had gathered around the Volkswagen Arena to put together the midfielder to remember . They lay down candles, pictures, scarves and flowers. On Twitter you press under the HASTAG #Malanda from their grief and compassion.

The news of Malandas accidental death sparked not only in Wolfsburg, but in the whole football world horror . “Shocked and saddened by the tragic death,” tweeted World Association President Joseph Blatter . “Football is losing a great talent. My thoughts are with his family.” Other Bundesliga expressed spontaneously also from their grief. As expressed Hamburger SV and 1899 Hoffenheim and Werder Bremen, Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund via Twitter her sympathy.

Especially great is the sympathy in Belgium . “The Belgian football loses one of its greatest talents,” said coach Marc Wilmot. Teammates from VfL or from the national published on social networks images with Malanda. “As strange if you have not heard your friend in the morning and then to learn this news,” tweeted Wolfsburg’s Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne . “We have lost a great friend too early. Rest in peace , You will always be with us.”

Maladas soccer club VfL Wolfsburg has announced a press conference for 12 clock on Sunday.

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