Liam Payne's boyhood football club pay heartbreaking tribute to tragic One Direction star

Former One Direction prima Liam Payne was recovered dormant aged 31 connected Wednesday, having fallen from a third-floor edifice balcony portion connected vacation successful the Argentine superior of Buenos Aires

West Bromwich Albion, the shot nine which the precocious Liam Payne supported, person paid tribute aft the erstwhile One Direction prima died aged 31.

Payne was recovered dormant connected Wednesday aft falling from a third-floor edifice balcony portion holidaying successful Argentina. Police said successful a statement that they were called to the CasaSur edifice successful the Palermo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires aft being notified of an 'aggressive antheral who could beryllium nether the effects of drugs and alcohol'.

When authorities arrived, the edifice manager reported that he'd heard a large sound from the interior courtyard. Police past recovered that a antheral had fallen from the balcony of his room.

Payne was portion of UK boyband One Direction from their enactment connected the X Factor successful 2010 until their indefinite hiatus 5 years later. Born successful adjacent Wolverhampton, Payne supported West Brom, who issued a tribute connected societal media.

"We're shocked and saddened to larn of the passing of Baggies instrumentality and musician, Liam Payne," the nine said alongside a photograph of Payne astatine their location stadium, the Hawthorns. "Our thoughts are with Liam's family, friends and loved ones astatine this tragic time."

Payne declared that helium was a 'huge West Brom supporter' erstwhile helium featured successful Soccer Aid, the yearly foundation shot match, successful 2022. "I don't get to the games arsenic often arsenic I'd like, though," helium added.

Championship broadside West Brom sent Payne a customised garment backmost successful 2017, featuring the sanction of his newborn son, Bear, who he'd welcomed with chap popular prima Cheryl Cole weeks earlier.

It's said that Payne fell from astir 13 oregon 14 metres and suffered live-ending injuries. In a statement, the section ambulance manager told Argentine quality outlet TN: "At 17.04 done the 911 integrated nationalist information system, we were alerted of a idiosyncratic who was successful an interior courtyard of the absorption of a southbound location hotel.

"There is an interior courtyard wherever the unfortunate fell, with tables and chairs: the hotel's confectionery store operates there. The abstraction has a retractable extortion that was unfastened astatine the time. Fortunately, determination were nary different radical there."

Alberto Crescenti, caput of the authorities exigency aesculapian system, told Argentina's Todo Noticias TV channel: "A fewer minutes aboriginal [an] exigency squad arrived and confirmed the decease of this antheral who we aboriginal learned was from a philharmonic group. He had injuries incompatible with beingness arsenic a effect of his fall. There was nary mode to bash anything."