{"id":34118,"date":"2026-08-25T18:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lask-to-hold-silence-for-celtic-fan-who-died-during-champions-league-match\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T18:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:18:11","slug":"lask-to-hold-silence-for-celtic-fan-who-died-during-champions-league-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lask-to-hold-silence-for-celtic-fan-who-died-during-champions-league-match\/","title":{"rendered":"LASK to hold silence for Celtic fan who died during Champions League match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Writing on social media, Celtic said: &#8220;LASK has contacted Celtic to advise that they wish to observe a period of silence prior to tonight&#8217;s match in tribute to our supporter who fell ill and tragically passed away following last week&#8217;s first leg at Celtic Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We send our thanks and appreciation to LASK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week Celtic thanked the emergency services and fellow fans for their efforts in dealing with the &#8220;tragic incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A club statement added: &#8220;We extend our deepest condolences, thoughts and prayers to the family and we will ensure that we offer them our full support at this extremely difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s team hold a 3-0 advantage going into the match at the Raiffeisen Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winner will progress to the lucrative group stage of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj642ld8px1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing on social media, Celtic said: &#8220;LASK has contacted Celtic to advise that they wish to observe a period of silence prior to tonight&#8217;s match in tribute to our supporter who fell ill and tragically passed away following last week&#8217;s first leg at Celtic Park. &#8220;We send our thanks and appreciation to LASK.&#8221; Last week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34120,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34118\/revisions\/34120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}