Police are investigating the death of 25-year-old Jayden Adams

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Police in Africa have launched an investigation into the death of 25-year-old national team player Jayden Adams. The footballer's body was found in one of the buildings near Cape Town, just two days after he helped his team reach the knockout stage of the Championship for the first time in history.

According to law enforcement authorities, Adams' body was discovered at around 11:00 on Saturday morning in the Shotshe Kloof area of \u200b\u200bcentral Cape Town.. The government has not officially disclosed the cause of death.

" The circumstances surrounding the incident are being investigated,” according to the law enforcement officer’s statement..

The footballer's father, Juanito Adams, told the African TV channel eNCA last week that his homeland was still waiting for the results of the presidential election and had not yet planned a funeral.

" The Motherland is trying to make peace with it. It won't be easy to survive. People think that you will become lighter, but it’s not so. You just need to learn to live with it,” Juanito Adams shared his pain.

Jayden Adams played a key role in Team Africa's most successful performance at the World Championships, taking part in all three group stage matches. Having lost his spare parts just before the match of the 1/16 final on the 28th of June, his team lost to the Canadian team with a score of 0:1.

Deep Africa Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie publicly acknowledged the young man's extraordinary fortitude. The minister guessed that Adams was on the field for the important group stage match against the Czech Republic just a few years after learning about the death of his grandmother.

McKenzie, exasperated by the enormity and nature of mass media information, urged to be streamlined and alert and avoid any assumption of the causes of the tragedy until the completion of the official investigation..

The news about the sudden death of Jayden Adams shook the football mood. On Saturday, at the hour of the quarterfinal matches of the World Championship between the teams of England and Norway, as well as Argentina and Switzerland, the memory of the young African gravel was revived with ceremonies.

По материалам: espn.com