The youthful brother of a Colombia girls’s nationwide soccer group participant was killed within the early hours of Monday in a nightclub taking pictures, native police within the metropolis of Cali mentioned.

Paulo Andres Carabali was the brother of Jorelyn Carabali, one among Colombia’s key gamers within the South American group’s run to the quarter-finals of the Women’s World Cup.

Colombia was crushed 2-1 by England in Sydney on Saturday.

The nation’s soccer federation mentioned in an announcement that welcome-home festivities for the squad’s return from Australia will go forward as scheduled on Tuesday regardless of the incident.

Local media reported that Carabali’s 23-year-old brother died after a gunman shot him in a Cali nightclub, the place police mentioned he labored as a DJ.

Colombia’s soccer physique mentioned Carabali thanked her teammates for his or her help after her brother’s loss of life, however didn’t say whether or not she’s going to attend the celebrations on Tuesday.