Holmwood Technical footballer dies
MANDEVILLE, Manchester- Nineteen-year-old student of the Holmwood Technical High School, Jevaughn Daley, died in the Mandeville Regional Hospital on Saturday.
A footballer at the institution, he is reported to have fallen ill after a tackle during a practice match between Holmwood and Munro College in late July at the Kirkvine Sports Club in Manchester.
“Jevaughn got a tackle and fell to the ground. He [then] left the field and started to vomit. He was feeling weak and a few players helped him to my vehicle,” Holmwood football coach Dave Anderson told OBSERVER ONLINE.
He said that in the first instance Daley was taken to the Percy Junor Hospital in Spalding before being transferred to the Mandeville Regional Hospital.
Anderson said that it was found that during the fall a cyst that the young footballer had on one of his intestines since birth had ruptured resulting in internal bleeding.
Daley, also called ‘Tuffy’, has reportedly been unwell since the July incident.
Following his second surgery last Sunday, however, Anderson said that there was hope that he would gradually recover although he was unable to eat and had deteriorated significantly.
“He was always a fit youngster. It is very rough for me; the footballers are distraught. I visited him in hospital on numerous occasions. I was looking forward to visit him this afternoon when I got the news yesterday evening,” the coach said on Sunday.
-Alicia Sutherland