{"id":466,"date":"2019-03-01T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/2019\/03\/01\/stuttgart-captains-father-dies-in-stadium-after-hertha-match\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:29:21","slug":"stuttgart-captains-father-dies-in-stadium-after-hertha-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Stuttgart captain's father dies in stadium after Hertha match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian Gentner’s father passed away at the Mercedes-Benz Arena following the Bundesliga fixture on Saturday <\/p>\n

Stuttgart have confirmed Herbert Gentner, father of the Bundesliga club’s captain Christian Gentner, died at their stadium following\u00a0the\u00a0home game against Hertha Berlin.<\/p>\n

Gentner played the entirety of Saturday’s encounter, setting up Mario Gomez’s winner in a\u00a02-1 victory.<\/p>\n

In a statement released on the club’s official website, Stuttgart announced their skipper’s father had passed away\u00a0at the\u00a0Mercedes-Benz Arena after the game had concluded.<\/p>\n

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“VfB Stuttgart mourns the passing of the father of team captain Christian Gentner, Herbert Gentner, who died at the stadium following VfB’s home game against Hertha Berlin,” the statement read.<\/p>\n

“The entire club offers its support and condolences to the Gentner family at this difficult time.”<\/p>\n

Several other Bundesliga clubs, including Hertha and Gentner’s former club Wolfsburg, also shared their condolences, while Bayern Munich’s Jerome Boateng posted his sympathies on\u00a0Twitter.<\/p>\n

Wolfsburg tweeted: “Dear Christian, we wish you and your family a lot of strength in these difficult hours and are with you in your thoughts.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christian Gentner’s father passed away at the Mercedes-Benz Arena following the Bundesliga fixture on Saturday Stuttgart have confirmed Herbert Gentner, father of the Bundesliga club’s captain Christian Gentner, died at their stadium following\u00a0the\u00a0home game against Hertha Berlin. Gentner played the entirety of Saturday’s encounter, setting up Mario Gomez’s winner in a\u00a02-1 victory. In a statement…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}