Football fans in China were outraged by Zhejiang FC’s decision to go ahead with a league match hours after the death of their Gabon international striker, Aaron Boupendza.
Police have ruled out foul play in the death of the 28-year-old, who died after falling from the 11th floor of a building in the eastern city of Hangzhou on Wednesday afternoon.
Boupendza’s Hangzhou-based club went ahead with a home Chinese Super League fixture later on Wednesday against Meizhou Hakka, sparking grief and anger from fans.
“Shouldn’t this match have been postponed?” one user wrote on the X-like social media platform Weibo.
Another posted on WeChat: “Why didn’t they postpone the match? The Chinese Super League is really very amateur.”
The match, which ended 2-2, was played in a sombre atmosphere with none of the club’s other foreign players taking the field.
