GERMAN INTERNATIONAL BASTIAN Schweinsteiger has paid tribute to Irish student Niccolai Schuster who lost his life in Berkeley on Monday night.
The 21-year-old, along with friends Eoghan Culligan (21), Eimear Walsh (21), Olivia Burke (21), Ashley Donohoe (22) and Lorcan Miller (21), were celebrating a 21st birthday party in an apartment in the Californian city when the fourth-floor balcony collapsed.
Some of his friends contacted the Bayern Munich midfielder on Facebook with a message describing how much the club meant to life-long fan Nick.
And Schweinsteiger has this afternoon posted a fitting response by expressing his condolences to Nick’s family and friends and all the other people involved in the tragic accident.
“The news makes me very sad. I wish much strength for this difficult time you, the family and all relatives of Nick. I would like to express my condolences also all other sufferers of this accident,” his message read.
Footballers can often be criticised but this is a lovely touch from Schweinsteiger.
A lot of respect for Bastian!
He’s almost as nice as Anna Ivanovich
Nice touch.
thank you Seb. will mean a lot to the family/s.
An icon for sport and decency. Fair play!
It’s a small moment out of his day, to do that, but it’s something that he did not have to do. Fair play
Fair play. Nice gesture.
A true gentleman to do this
Well done Bastian
Top man top player
A class act. Needless to say one of my favourite sportspeople.
Thats very big of him to take the time to acknowlage this lads passing. Resepct where due.
Very nice of him to do respect to the man for that