Wolfsburg – Bundesliga side Wolfsburg is going ahead with its planned training camp in South Africa despite the death of midfielder Junior Malanda in a car crash on Saturday.
Wolfsburg general manager Klaus Allofs said: “It wasn’t an easy decision but we’re sure that it’s absolutely the right one. He wanted success, to achieve great things with us, and it’s the least we could do for him.”
The 20-year-old Malanda, a Belgium youth international, died when the Volkswagen Touareg in which he was a back seat passenger crashed off the motorway near Bielefeld. He was on his way to meet team-mates for Saturday night’s planned departure to the training camp.
Wolfsburg was bringing in counsellors to help players cope with the loss of their team-mate.
Allofs says, “Everyone is completely distraught.” – Sapa-AP