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England players observe a moment of silence in memory of Jayden Adams (Marta Lavandier\/AP)\n<\/p>\nPolice in South Africa are investigating the death of World Cup footballer Jayden Adams after his body was discovered at a property in Cape Town.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old died two weeks after helping South Africa reach the knockout stage of a World Cup for the first time.<\/p>\n
Authorities have not released a cause of death.<\/p>\n
\u201cCape Town central police registered an inquest for investigation following the discovery of the body of a 25-year-old male on Saturday,\u201d police said in a statement sent to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n
England players observe a moment of silence in memory of Jayden Adams (Marta Lavandier\/AP)\n<\/p>\n
\u201cCircumstances surrounding this incident are under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said the body was discovered at a property in the Cape Town neighbourhood of Schotsche Kloof at around 11am on Saturday, but gave no more details.<\/p>\n
Adams\u2019s father, Juanito Adams, told South African TV news station eNCA on Sunday that the family were waiting for the results of a post-mortem examination and had not made any funeral plans.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs you all know, it was an untimely death. The family is struggling to process it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt won\u2019t be easy to carry on. People say it will become easier, but it won\u2019t. You just learn to live with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adams played in all three of South Africa\u2019s group games as the country produced its best performance at the World Cup. He did not feature in the 1-0 loss to Canada in the round of 32 on June 28.<\/p>\n
South Africa sports minister Gayton McKenzie said Adams had played in his team\u2019s group game against Czech Republic hours after learning that his grandmother had died.<\/p>\n
Mr McKenzie asked the public and media to \u201cexercise restraint and compassion\u201d and not speculate on the cause of Adams\u2019s death while authorities conduct an investigation.<\/p>\n
There were moments of silence and tributes for Adams at the England vs Norway and Argentina vs Switzerland World Cup quarter-final games on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in South Africa are investigating the death of World Cup footballer Jayden Adams after his body was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-547503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}