FC Metz youth academy prospect mortally wounds 15-year-old rival player at international tournament in Frankfurt

RMC Sport report that German police have confirmed that a 15-year-old teenager from Berlin has died after being mortally wounded by a youth academy prospect playing for Ligue 2 outfit FC Metz on the backdrop of an international tournament in Frankfurt.

“After a fight on Sunday… a 15-year-old boy died in hospital of serious brain injuries. In order to clarify the circumstances of (the death of the young German), an autopsy will be performed in the coming days,” the police statement read.

The 16-year-old boy suspected of having struck the fatal blows is still in pre-trial detention, said the Frankfurt police, who are continuing their investigation into the course of events. The suspect is part of one of the youth academy programmes of French club FC Metz. The tournament in which the two youngsters took part welcomed teams from 16 different countries, most of them European.

The deceased teenager, who played for the German team JFC Berlin, has so far been kept artificially alive so that he could donate his organs, the spokeswoman for the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office told AFP.

On Tuesday, the French club, “deeply shocked by this tragedy”, did not specify the age or nationality of the offending player who plays within the FC Metz Performance Program, a program integrated into the club which allows “young footballers or coaches from all over the world to be able to access a high-level training structure.”

GFFN | James Thorpe