The friends of 16-year-old Shetemi Ayetigbo took to Facebook today to express their shock and grief at his sudden death.

 

The teenager collapsed yesterday afternoon while playing a match for North Dublin's Belvedere Football Club.

 

Onlookers said the teen, whose family are originally from Nigeria but raised him in Dublin, dropped to the ground during a break in play. Staff at the club house administered first aid, and paramedics arrived soon after, but it's believed Shetemi died at the scene.

 

A post mortem was due to take place last night.

 

"There was no incident, any attack. The young lad was playing, and he just dropped on the pitch," one shocked witness told The Irish Daily Mirror.

 

 

"A number of people rushed to his side straight away to give him first aid, as there was a defibrillator at the grounds. An ambulance came, and paramedics tried to treat him there. But he couldn’t be saved."

 

The incident took place at St. Kevin's Boys Club grounds in Santry, North Dublin.

 

Devastated friends of the teenager said he was always cheerful and was popular at school and in his club. "It sounds like a cliche, but I never saw him without a smile. He was just the the happiest person I knew," said 20-year-old Sergey Kurapov to the Irish Independent. 

 

"I'm devastated you're gone really am, dunno what I'm gonna do without you in school," Shetemi's friend Christian Harris wrote on Facebook last night.

 

Our thoughts are with Shetemi's family and friends at this time.

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