A 15-year old JFC Berlin player died shortly after being hit by an FC Metz player after a fight broke out during a tournament in Frankfurt

A 15-year old JFC Berlin player died shortly after being hit by an FC Metz player after a fight broke out during a tournament in Frankfurt. 

The Metz player is in pre-trial detention.

The 15-year was representing JFC Berlin during the tournament based in Frankfurt when he became involved in a fight with a 16-year old FC Metz player, who was said to have struck serious blows to his opponent.

Frankfurt police say that the player remains in pre-trial detention, with his punishment undecided while they further investigate the attack.

On Tuesday, Metz as a club announced that they were “deeply shocked by this tragedy”, with the age and nationality of the offending player who plays within the FC Metz Performance Program yet to be revealed.

The shocking incident allegedly occurred at an international youth football tournament in Frankfurt on Sunday.

NW News claims a fight broke out at the end of a match between Metz and JFC Berlin’s youth sides.

A Metz player allegedly struck a Berlin opponent “on the head and neck”, with the German collapsing with a brain injury.

And he has now passed away, with a 16-year-old Metz player in pre-trial detention as police continue to investigate.

His club released a statement, saying: “FC Metz learned with amazement of the drama that took place in Frankfurt during a friendly private U17-U19 football tournament in which two FC Metz Performance Program teams participated.

“At the end of a match which had taken place in good spirits, an incomprehensible scuffle took place and a young German player was hospitalised in serious condition, without the causes of this state being able to be determined today, now established.