Fans voice anger as China club plays hours after Gabon striker Aaron Boupendza's death
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.
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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.'
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The match, which ended 2-2, was played in a sombre atmosphere with none of the club's other foreign players taking the field.
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