Czech international striker Josef Sural has been killed after a
bus carrying players of Turkish club Aytemiz Alanyaspor crashed.
Sural, 28, died
at the hospital where he and six of his team-mates were taken after a bus
carrying them back from a game at Kayserispor crashed on Sunday.
Seven of the
Super Lig’s club’s players had rented the private minibus.
Club chairman Hasan Cavusoglu according to the BBC claimed the
driver of the mini bus had fallen asleep at the wheel.
A second
on-board driver was also reportedly asleep when the accident happened around
three miles from the club’s home city of Alanya.
On Twitter, the
club posted: “We have learned with deep sorrow that Josef Sural lost his life
as a result of an accident carrying seven football players from Alanyaspor.”
Cavusoglu said
the six other players on board were not in a critical condition.
Former Spurs,
Cardiff and QPR defender Steven Caulker and ex-Newcastle striker Papiss Cisse
play for Alanyaspor.
Caulker scored
in the 1-1 draw at Kayserispor but it is not yet known whether he and Cisse
were among the group of players who chose to use the minibus, while the rest of
the club’s players and staff travelled on a team bus or on their own.
Sural joined Alanyaspor
from Sparta Prague in January.
He made 20
appearances for his country, last featuring in their Nations League defeat by
Ukraine in October.
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