Tributes pour in after 20-year-old Macau footballer dies in car crash
Leon Ng, who played against Hong Kong in March, was involved in accident near Macau’s Grand Prix Building
Tributes have been paid to a young Macau footballer who played for his city’s representative team, after he was killed in a car accident on Monday.
Leon Ng Lai-teng, who was 20 years old, was one of six passengers involved in a single-vehicle accident near Macau’s Grand Prix Building, local media reported. The car crashed into barriers on Avenida da Amizade on Monday morning.
Reports stated that the vehicle’s 20-year-old female driver lost her life in the crash, as did Ng, another 20-year-old male and a 19-year-old male. Three further people suffered life-threatening injuries, according to the reports.
Ng had played for Macau’s representative team against their Hong Kong counterparts at Hong Kong’s Mong Kok Stadium in March this year.
“It is a big loss for Macau football,” Macau’s head coach Kenneth Kwok Kar-lok told the Post. “Leon was one of our biggest talents and I was proud to have him as one of my players in the senior team.”