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\nEnglish soccer player Ethan McLeod has died at the age of 21McLeod was killed in a car crash while driving home from his team’s game on Tuesday nightHis team, Macclesfield F.C., said McLeod has a “lust for life” that “put smiles on all our faces \u2014 even on the darkest of days”<\/p>\n
English soccer player Ethan McLeod has died after getting in a car crash while traveling home from his team\u2019s game on Tuesday, Macclesfield F.C. announced. He was 21 years old.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cEthan was an incredibly talented and well-respected member of our First Team Squad, who had his whole life ahead of him,\u201d Macclesfield said in a statement<\/a> on Tuesday, Dec. 16 announcing McLeod\u2019s death.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Macclesfield said Ethan \u201cwas involved in a car accident on the M1 which tragically took his life\u201d while he was traveling back from Bedford Town on Tuesday night. BBC reported<\/a> the crash occurred when McLeod\u2019s white Mercedes collided with a roadside barrier shortly around 10:40 p.m. local time.\n<\/p>\n The team said \u201cEthan\u2019s infectious personality endeared him to everyone that he came into contact with\u201d and \u201cin giving his all in everything he did, Ethan effortlessly pushed us all to be the best we can be \u2014 both on and off the pitch.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Ethan McLeod.<\/p>\n Jack Thomas – WWFC\/Wolves via Getty<\/p>\n \u201cEthan\u2019s professionalism and unwavering work ethic inspired everyone, and his lust for life put smiles on all our faces \u2014 even on the darkest of days,\u201d the team said. \u201cNews of Ethan\u2019s passing has devastated our entire Club and no words can convey the immense sense of sadness and loss that we feel now.\u201d\n<\/p>\n McLeod has been in the English soccer system since he was 7 years old when he first joined the Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers\u2019 youth academy, according to BBC. Born in Birmingham, England, McLeod\u2019s career also included stints with Alvechurch in the Southern League, as well as Rushall Olympic and Stourbridge.\n<\/p>\n The 21-year-old joined Macclesfield in July and made five appearances with the National League North team this season, scoring two goals.\n<\/p>\n Ethan McLeod.<\/p>\n Cameron Smith – WWFC\/Getty<\/p>\n Macclesfield, which plays in English soccer\u2019s sixth tier league, said \u201cthe deep mental scars elicited from Ethan’s passing will undeniably never heal \u2013 but one thing is for sure, and that is Ethan’s vibrant legacy will never fade, no matter how much time passes in the future.\u201d\n<\/p>\n McLeod\u2019s younger brother Conor, 20, currently plays with his former Wolverhampton team. \u201cWe are sending our thoughts and love to Ethan\u2019s family, friends and everyone at Macclesfield,\u201d the team said in a social media post<\/a>, adding that it \u201cwill be providing care and support\u201d for Conor in the wake of his older brother\u2019s death.\n<\/p>\n The team also announced it would observe a minute of silence before its upcoming game on Saturday \u201cto remember and honor Ethan.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW English soccer player Ethan McLeod has died at the age of 21McLeod was killed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-351454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}