PHOTO: #Cameroon striker Ebosse dead after hit by object

Albert Ebosse

African football must not become a “breeding ground for hoolignanism”, CAF president Issa Hayatou warned Sunday after Cameroonian striker Albert Ebosse died when he was hit by a....
projectile during an Algerian league match.

Ebosse, 24, had scored the lone goal for his club JS Kabylie in a home match in what turned out to be a 2-1 defeat against USM Alger, on the second day of the Algerian championship.

The Cameroon forward was hit by an object thrown from the stands following his team’s loss and was declared dead after he was rushed to a hospital at Tizi Ouzou, east of the capital Algiers, where the match took place.

Fans had started throwing objects from the stands inside the Tizi Ouzou stadium after the match as the players were returning to their changing room.

Hayatou, president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF, the sport’s governing body on the continent), expressed his condolences.

Ebosse joined JS Kabylie in 2013 and was top scorer in the 2013-2014 Algerian championship.

The Algerian interior ministry ordered an investigation to search for the culprit.

The Algerian National Professional League also ordered the Tizi Ouzou stadium shut and called an extraordinary board meeting on Monday to investigate the incident.

Also present will be officials from JS Kabylie, the match referees and the match commissioner.

League president Mahfoud Kerbadj, who was present at the game, called the death a “catastrophe for national football”.

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