After the sudden death of Agyemang Diawusie, Jahn Regensburg will play as planned on Sunday against SC Freiburg II (4.30 p.m. at MagentaSport). The third division club announced this on Thursday after the club had “exchanged and coordinated extensively and in an open-ended manner with the closest personal and family circle of the deceased player,” as it said in a statement: “The result is the conscious, common decision of everyone Those involved to play the home game next Sunday in special memory of Agyemang Diawusie.”
In memory of Diawusie, there will be a league-wide minute’s silence before the games on matchday 17 of the third division. The German Football Association (DFB) also recommends that teams “wear mourning at the weekend. The entire league’s thoughts are with Diawusie’s survivors, friends, teammates and coaches,” said the DFB. Diawusie died on Tuesday at the age of 25 from a “sudden cardiac death, presumably caused by a viral infection with suspected myocarditis,” it said.
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“We can still hardly put our bewilderment into words and we are all finding it incredibly difficult to come to terms with this loss,” said Achim Beierlorzer, Managing Director of Sport in Regensburg: “In intensive consultation with his closest confidants – his family, his closest friends, “His advisor, his teammates and the coaching team – today we came to the collective decision to play the game on Sunday against SC Freiburg II in special memory of and in deep sadness for Agy.”
The death caused great consternation in football Germany. “It is a comfort to know that we – and especially Agy’s family – are not alone in our grief,” said Beierlorzer: “We continue to ask that the privacy of Agyemang Diawusie’s personal environment be respected.”
