Tributes are pouring in for a young football player who died after a horror on-field collision during a game in South Australia. 9News
Birdwood Football Club player Antonio Loiacono died at the weekend after he suffered critical injuries during the season-opening A-grade game at Gumeracha Oval in the Adelaide Hills.
Hills League Football president Joanne Purdie said Loiacono's death had affected the entire local football community. "On behalf of the HFL Board of Directors, we express our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Antonio Loiacono who passed away on Sunday evening.Friends and family have remembered the 20-year-old as someone who would "put a smile on anyone's face"."Our thoughts and prayers are with Antonio's family, the Birdwood and Gumeracha Football Clubs and extended communities.
"Particularly for such a young, healthy, good person, so this is hard for anyone to get their head around and I think the whole state's thoughts will be with family members first and foremost."The Great Southern Football League took to Facebook to share its sincere condolences to Loiacono's family and friends.
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