Fernando\u00a0Martin, a\u00a0coach\u00a0with\u00a0Valencia\u00a0CF, has died with three members of his family after their\u00a0boat\u00a0capsized in\u00a0Indonesia, Spanish football clubs said.<\/p>\n
Valencia\u00a0said they were \u201cdeeply saddened by the passing of\u00a0Fernando\u00a0Martin,\u00a0coach\u00a0of\u00a0Valencia\u00a0CF Femenino B, and three of his children, in the tragic\u00a0boat\u00a0accident\u00a0in\u00a0Indonesia, as confirmed by local authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indonesian and Spanish authorities said on Saturday that\u00a0Martin\u00a0and three of his children were missing after the\u00a0boat\u00a0carrying 11 people sank in extreme weather on Friday in the Padar Island Strait near the island of Labuan Bajo, a popular tourist spot.<\/p>\n
Fernando\u00a0Martin, a\u00a0coach\u00a0with\u00a0Valencia\u00a0CF, has died with three members of his family after their\u00a0boat\u00a0capsized in\u00a0Indonesia. Fernando Martin\/Instagram<\/p>\n
Martin\u00a0and three of his children were missing after the\u00a0boat\u00a0carrying 11 people sank in extreme weather on Friday. AP<\/p>\n
First responders rescue several survivors from after a boat capsized off the coast of Indonesia on Dec. 26, 2025. via REUTERS<\/p>\n
The search was continuing on Sunday morning, Fathur Rahman, mission coordinator for\u00a0Indonesia\u2019s search and rescue agency in the area, told Reuters.<\/p>\n
Real Madrid CF also sent condolences for\u00a0Martin, 44, a former player in second-tier Spanish football who was appointed\u00a0coach\u00a0of the\u00a0Valencia\u00a0Women\u2019s B team this year.<\/p>\n
His wife and one daughter, as well as four crew members and a tour guide, were rescued and safe, SAR said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando\u00a0Martin, a\u00a0coach\u00a0with\u00a0Valencia\u00a0CF, has died with three members of his family after their\u00a0boat\u00a0capsized in\u00a0Indonesia, Spanish football clubs said. Valencia\u00a0said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[5806,159125,49,48,12375,6110,561,159126,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-372645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-boat-crashes","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-deaths","13":"tag-indonesia","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-spain-soccer","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372645","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=372645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}