WOLFSBURG, Germany (AP) " Bundesliga side Wolfsburg is going ahead with its planned training camp in South Africa despite the death of midfielder Junior Malanda in a car crash on Saturday.
"It wasn't an easy decision but we're sure that it's absolutely the right one. He wanted success, to achieve great things with us, and it's the least we could do for him," Wolfsburg general manager Klaus Allofs said.
The team's rescheduled departure for Cape Town was set for Sunday evening.
The 20-year-old Malanda, a Belgium youth international, died when the Volkswagen Touareg in which he was a back-seat passenger crashed off the motorway near Bielefeld. He was on his way to meet teammates for Saturday evening's planned departure to the training camp.
Wolfsburg was bringing in counselors to help players cope with the loss of their teammate.