Former South Africa junior worldwide Luke Fleurs, who performed for the nation’s hottest soccer membership, Kaizer Chiefs, was killed in a carjacking in Johannesburg, police officers confirmed Thursday.
Fleurs, 24, was shot within the chest at a gasoline station Wednesday night time and the assailants drove off in his car.
“Whereas ready to be served by the attendant, he was confronted by two armed males,” police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo instructed reporters, including that no arrests had been made.
The centre-back performed each minute for South Africa on the Tokyo Olympic Video games in 2021, and that very same yr was referred to as as much as the senior staff for World Cup qualifiers in opposition to Ethiopia, although he didn’t make it off the bench and was uncapped.
“We woke as much as the heartbreaking and devastating information of the passing of this younger life. That is such an enormous loss for his household, mates, his teammates and soccer generally. We’re all grieving this younger man’s passing,” South African Soccer Affiliation president Danny Jordaan stated in a press release.
Zizi Kodwa, South Africa’s Minister of Sport, Arts & Tradition, stated he was “saddened that yet one more life has been minimize brief because of violent crime.”
Fleurs joined Chiefs from SuperSport United in October, having come by the Ubuntu Soccer Academy in Cape City.