Spanish footballer Jesus de Miguel’s family have said they have an ‘impossible void to fill’ as hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects after he was killed in a freak mid-match collision with a goalkeeper.
Mourners filled the streets of De Miguel’s hometown of Navahermosa in the foothills of Montes de Toledo, outside Toledo, where he was born and his family still live.
The 30-year-old Tenerife striker’s death after the on-pitch incident has stunned football-obsessed Spain and hundreds of members of the public turned out alongside his family and friends outside the parish church of San Miguel Arcángel.
The late striker’s body was delivered
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