BRAZIL: FOOTBALL/ SOCCER; WORLD CUP 2014: Argentina soccer team mourns death of reporter

Record ID: 449173

  • Title: BRAZIL: FOOTBALL/ SOCCER; WORLD CUP 2014: Argentina soccer team mourns death of reporter
  • Date: 2nd July 2014
  • Summary: VESPASIANO, BRAZIL (JULY 2, 2014) (REUTERS) PLAYERS ON PITCH LIONEL MESSI WITH PLAYERS WIDE SHOT OF PLAYERS VARIOUS OF PLAYERS WALKING AROUND PITCH PLAYERS PLAYING WITH ONE OF THE PLAYERS PLAYERS STRETCHING COACH ALEJANDRO SABELLA ON PITCH MESSI SITTING ON PITCH WITH OTHER PLAYERS ANGEL DI MARIA STRETCHING WITH OTHER PLAYERS GOALKEEPERS TRAINING PLAYERS WATCHING TRAINING WIDE PAN OF PLAYERS ON PITCH WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ARGENTINA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION GENERAL SECRETARY JUAN CARLOS CRESPI SAYING: "The soccer players are extremely saddened by this death because they also feel affected as they are also children and they also have children themselves. Old people like myself are affected because children normally bury their parents and not the other way around. The soccer players are extremely saddened." JOURNALIST SAYING ONE MINUTE OF SILENCE IN HONOUR OF JOURNALIST JOURNALISTS OBSERVING ONE MINUTE SILENCE THEN STARTS APPLAUDING JOURNALIST CRYING
  • Embargoed: 17th July 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Brazil
  • Country: Brazil
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA1W4EJZJX1MY2C5PK4N612IQXL
  • Story Text: Argentina players were in no mood to celebrate a day after their World Cup round of 16 victory over Switzerland, mourning the death of an Argentine reporter and cancelling a press conference on Wednesday (July 2).
    Maria Soledad Fernandez, a reporter and daughter of prominent Argentine journalist Miguel 'Titi' Fernandez, was killed in a car crash on her way back to Belo Horizonte from Sao Paulo. Two of her colleagues were injured in the crash.
    "The players are extremely saddened by this death because they also feel affected as they are also children and they also have children themselves," Argentina football Association General Secretary Juan Carlos Crespi told reporters.
    Team officials and reporters held a minute silence, with many in tears and many clapping.
    "Old people like me are also affected because children normally bury their parents, not the other way around," said Crespi after announcing that they were cancelling the press conference.
    Argentina, who booked their quarter-final ticket on Tuesday (July 1) with an 1-0 extra-time win over the Swiss, next face Belgium.
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