The Belgian and German football mourns Junior Malanda.
The Professional of the VfL Wolfsburg arrived on Saturday in a car accident near Porta Westfalica killed.
The Belgian youth international who played for the Lower Saxony since the beginning of 2014, was only 20 years old.
Malanda had played ten games for the Europa League contenders in the current season. He was on arrival to Braunschweig airport.
car crashed into a tree
From there he wanted to fly a training camp in South Africa with VfL team , Manager Klaus Allofs said after lengthy discussion with the club’s leadership the planned evening flight from.
The club will now decide on Sunday whether he flies late to training camp or travel cancels completely.
According to police, Bielefeld, the fatal accident occurred against 15.20 clock in direction Hannover, as a sport utility vehicle in heavy rain according to witnesses went out of control without external influence yet unknown reason.
The car crashed into a tree. This Malanda was thrown from the car and died at the scene. The driver and a passenger, also 20-year-old Belgian who had been seriously injured in the accident, the report said.
De Bruyne mourns friend
“We are incredibly concerned, it is a very terrible misfortune,” said VfL board member Stephan Grühsem in an initial statement.
Malandas Belgian teammate Kevin De Bruyne shared on Instagram: “We have lost a great friend too early Rest in peace, you will always be with us.”.
Belgium coach Marc Wilmot said: “The Belgian football loses one of its greatest talents My deepest sympathy goes out to the family and friends of Junior Malanda “
Allofs:”.. He was the good spirit of our team, “
Wolves manager Klaus Allofs, in a first opinion his bewilderment hard to put into words: “We all loved him He was the good spirit of our team and a fun-loving man Furthermore, Junior was an excellent footballer who at the very.. was in its infancy. We still can not believe that he is no longer with us forever. “
Many Bundesliga expressed within minutes their condolences. Most players of VfL Wolfsburg were caught on the way to the meeting point at the airport by the news of his death. They reacted in shock and went back in the evening to their homes.
The decision on whether the team of second-cancels the stay in South Africa complete or not, according to a club spokesperson, “wide open.”
Malanda is by Jürgen Moll (Eintracht Braunschweig / 1968), Lutz own village (Eintracht Braunschweig / 1983) and Maurice Banach (1. FC Köln / 1991) of the fourth active player in the German Bundesliga, dies in a car accident.
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