Billy Vigar’s ex-teammates pay emotional tributes as Arsenal release statement | Football

Arsenal paid tribute to the Billy Vigar “fiercely determined” with his former Gunners’ teammates sharing their memories after the tragic death of the footballer.

Vigar, 21, died Thursday after undergoing a “serious brain injury” while playing for her team Chichester City last weekend.

The striker would have collided with a concrete wall while trying to keep the ball in play. The first division of the isthmian league.Match was abandoned after only 13 minutes.

Chichester announced his death Thursday evening.

Vigar joined Arsenal’s Academy at the age of 14 and signed his first professional contract with the Gunners in July 2022.

He trained with the first team at the age of 16 and appeared for teams under 18 and under 21 of the club.

Vigar was part of the consumption of arsenal scholarships alongside Charles Sagoe Jr and Remy Mitchell, who are still at the club.

After the new tragic tragic, Sagoe Jr and Mitchell paid tribute to their former teammate, sharing old photos of them playing together for the Arsenal youth team, celebrating success in various competitions for young people as adolescents with the message “Rest in Peace, Billy”.

Charlie Patino, who left Arsenal last year and now plays in Spain with Deportivo la Coruna, is another former teammate who shared photos of the two together at the time of the Arsenal Academy formation.

In a long statement that tells of his career to the club, Arsenal spoke warmly about his former player.

“Everyone at the Arsenal Football Club is deeply sorry to learn the tragic death of the Chichester City striker and the former Arsenal Academy player Billy Vigar,” said their statement.

“Billy joined our academy on the terms of schoolchildren at the age of 14, after being spotted in his Natal Club Hove Rivervale FC and excelled as an attacker in Hale End, scoring 17 goals in his first season. In 2020, his performances earned him a scholarship and joined us full time for the 2020/21 season, his contribution, including current players Charles Sagoe Jr, Remy Mitchell and others such as Omari Hutchinson, Charlie Patino and Brook Norton-Cuffy.

`Quick, powerful and fiercely determined, his first season as a researcher was destroyed by a serious injury to the hamstrings, but he compensated his second, scoring four goals in 18 appearances under 18 and signed professional conditions for the club at the end of this 2021/22 season.

“ Billy continued to appear to us in the PL2 and EFL trophy and turned out to be an asset through the advanced positions and even deputy in defense – his versatility illustrating his commitment to coache staff and his team.

“ He appreciated loan spells at Derby County and Eastbourne Borough and at the end of the 2023/24 season, returned to his native south coast, signing Hastings United – before a move to Chichester last month.

“ In addition to his important talent, Billy will remain memories for his love of the game, the pride of representing our football club – he has already called the day when he was spotted by our scouts as “the most important of his life” – and a loved character of teammates and coaches.

“Our deepest condolences go to the Vigar family and their many friends at this extremely difficult moment.”

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