Shock in Spain: a 24-year-old footballer from the promotion has been stabbed to death

Sad hours are lived in football in Spain. Francisco Naval Perez24-year-old Chipiona CF player, died in the early hours of last Sunday in the hospital of the Spanish municipality, after being stabbed in the chest by a young man who had already been arrested once.

The player who competed at regional level in the sixth division of Spanish football, had been transferred to various medical centers due to injuries but was in hospital Gate of the Sea where he died The wounds were caused by A big knife and they were difficult to deal with in attempting to save Pérez.

“The victim was first taken to the Sanlúcar de Barrameda Hospital and then to Jerez de la Fronterabut due to the severity of his injuries, he had to be taken by helicopter to the Puerta del Mar hospital in Cádiz, where he died around 2:30 on Sunday‘ the newspaper reported The voice from Cadiz

According to initial information provided by the same media, the crime took place last Saturday at 2.00 pm in Spain, when a 21 years identified as “AJL” attacked the footballer for a reason that is not easy to understand. However, after a few hours he gave himself up to the police.

More information was known this Monday. And the newspapers in the area reported that the father of the murderer discovered him while he was cleaning the knife with which he had committed the crime and forced him to turn himself in. Once presented to the authorities, he was sent to Cárcel Puerto II, after having decreed preventive detention and without the possibility of bail.

Regarding the statements that could be known about the reasons for the crime, the Spanish Civil Guard assured: “The young man wanted to know what it was like to stab someone“.

And Alexis Terreno, a friend of the killer, testified for the lawsuit and added, “He says so she chose him because he was handsome and strong. I wasn’t looking for just any person, but a beautiful body that noticed how that knife broke those fibers when it killed him”.

And adding to the pain that the family of the deceased must suffer, the father of the young man also asked for compassion for the moment he has to go through: “We too are suffering a lot. I handed my son over to the Guardia Civil knowing he will be there for many years. We are very nervous and cannot believe what is happening.”

The funeral of Federico Naval took place this Monday​, in Chipiona, in a ceremony attended by relatives and neighbors who carried the remains of the deceased from the Parish of Nuestra Señora de la O to the San José Cemetery on their shoulders.

The condolences of the football clubs

On the day of the death, from the social networks of Chipionathe Pérez club, published a statement in which he expressed his pain: “Well, we have no words to begin with, it seems like a nightmare, but sadly it is real, our player Paco Naval Pérez left us, he died this morning, one morning in the struggle between life and death, Paco was only 24 years old, a whole life ahead of him. DEP”.

Furthermore, the team would later decide to put a photo of Francisco as their profile picture and write another tweet in gratitude for all the condolences received: “From the club, we want to thank all the people for their words of encouragement in these difficult times, provincial and national football clubs, which have been many. Transfer those thousand supports to the family who are the ones who need it”.

Several recognized clubs in the European country also expressed their condolences to those close to Pérez when the murder was made public, including the real Madrid and the Valencia.