Footballer, 24, found dead after night out with team-mates as tragic search ends

Jakov Jelkic went missing successful Spain aft partying with team-mates and his nine FC Granges-Paccot person heartbreakingly announced that helium has died aft being recovered successful larboard waters

Swiss 3rd part broadside FC Granges-Paccot person confirmed the heartbreaking decease of Jakov Jelkic aft helium went missing.

The 24-year-old was with team-mates successful Alicante and reportedly went missing aft leaving a nightclub. It was reported that helium was partying with team-mates aft flying implicit the Spain for a tournament.

Jelkic, it has been claimed, was seemingly seen leaving a barroom connected a nighttime retired earlier falling into the sea. He past failed to instrumentality to his hotel, with unit reporting him missing and Jelkic’s household enactment retired a hopeless entreaty connected societal media to find him.

But constabulary person present confirmed that his assemblage was pulled from the waters of Alicante larboard connected Monday evening astatine astir 5:30pm, with his decease considered accidental. And Jelkic’s nine person present enactment retired a heartfelt statement.

Writing connected Instagram, FC Granges-Paccot said: “It is with large sadness that we learned of Jakov’s passing. All our thoughts spell to his family, friends, teammates and each the radical who knew him intimately oregon from afar.

“His representation volition stay everlastingly engraved successful our hearts. A friend, a teammate, an inspiration to america all. Rest successful peace.”

Tributes started to determination successful aft the announcement. Fellow Swiss broadside FC Schoenberg replied: “Dear friends of FC Granges-Paccot, we learned with large sadness the decease of your player. In these hard moments, FC Schoenberg wishes to nonstop you and his household and relatives our deepest condolences. Football creates beardown bonds beyond the transportation and contiguous we stock your pain.”

Fans besides offered their connection of support. One wrote: “Forever successful our hearts. Condolences to each the family, friends & team,” portion different said: “In enactment of the family, the players, and each his relatives, each my sympathy.”

Jelkic had scored 1 extremity for the nine truthful acold this season. Granges-Paccot presently beryllium sixth successful the Swiss 3rd tier aft 11 games of the season. They person won 4 matches truthful acold this term. They are adjacent acceptable to beryllium successful enactment adjacent period arsenic they question FC Ressudens, with their adjacent lucifer astatine location coming against Montagny successful aboriginal April.

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