{"id":670860,"date":"2026-05-14T17:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670860\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:52:11","slug":"hannah-teklic-community-mourns-nine-year-old-girl-who-died-suddenly-from-brain-bleed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670860\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Teklic: Community mourns nine-year-old girl who died suddenly from brain bleed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes are flowing for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/sydney\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Sydney\">Sydney<\/a> girl who died suddenly after a sudden brain bleed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Nine\ufeff-year-old Hannah Teklic is being remembered as a &#8220;bright and beautiful soul&#8221; who loved to play sport with her friends.<\/p>\n<p>Her \ufefffootball club, Marrickville FC, will wear black armbands in her honour this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/8ba12552-e4b4-4086-8de8-ee612726a69b.jpeg\"   alt=\"Nine&#xFEFF;-year-old Hannah Teklic is being remembered as a &quot;bright and beautiful soul&quot;.\"\/>Nine\ufeff-year-old Hannah Teklic is being remembered as a &#8220;bright and beautiful soul&#8221;. (Marrickville FC)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hannah loved playing football with her friends and had been part of Marrickville FC for three years,&#8221; the club said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts and prayers are with her parents Ivan and Wasima, her family, friends and teammates during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hannah will be laid to rest in Ireland, with her loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fly high Hannah, watch over us all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An online fundraiser set up for the family to assist with funeral costs and ease the financial burden has raised more $40,000.<\/p>\n<p>The community has wrapped its arms around the family, sending condolences and paying tribute to the nine-year-old girl.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hannah loved playing soccer, and her team will deeply miss the force that she was on the field,&#8221; one person said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\ufeffTerrible news, such a loss for all and so terribly sad for her family and friends,&#8221; another said.<\/p>\n<p>The Matildas football team also said its hearts were with Hannah&#8217;s family, friends and teammates at this &#8220;incredibly difficult&#8221; time.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her love of the game and playing with her friends represents everything beautiful about the game, and our thoughts are with everyone at the club, her family and her friends,&#8221; a statement from the Matildas said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hannah will always be part of our football family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tributes are flowing for a Sydney girl who died suddenly after a sudden brain bleed on Monday. Nine\ufeff-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-670860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}