Teenage football dies after being diagnosed with cancer

The 19-year-old reportedly gave up the ghost right beside his parents, sister and brother who were at his bedside at the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

It was gathered he was a member of the Coastal Bend College soccer team in Texas after winning a scholarship to the American university.

His family helped him return home just at the start of the lockdown not long before he started feeling sick.

According to his father Brendan who was a former professional player, late Joe was admitted at the hospital in May, but his condition worsened and he was taken into the intensive care early June before he died days later.

Joe Aspinall in action. Photo Credit: Coastal Bend College (Twitter)
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“Following initial tests they found he had a haematological malignancy (blood cancer) that caused blood clots in his spleen and fatally, his lungs,” he was quoted saying.

“He was comforted at the end by his parents, sister and brother,” he added.