Player back from dead after grave mistake

Call it audacious, call it tasteless, call it Twainesque, but don’t call the undertaker just yet: Fernando Nuno La Fuente, whose football club in Dublin faked his death, is alive and well in Spain.

Player back from dead after grave mistake

Call it audacious, call it tasteless, call it Twainesque, but don’t call the undertaker just yet: Fernando Nuno La Fuente, whose football club in Dublin faked his death, is alive and well in Spain.

Last Friday, Ballybrack FC told Leinster Senior League (LSL) officials that the Spanish third-level student had died in a car crash as he left training the previous evening.

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