BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama highschool soccer participant died Saturday, a day after he was critically injured throughout a recreation.

Morgan Academy quarterback Caden Tellier was damage following a sort out within the third quarter of the varsity’s recreation Friday evening towards Southern Academy in Selma, headmaster Bryan Oliver informed Al.com. Tellier, a 16-year-old junior, suffered a mind harm and was flown to the College of Alabama at Birmingham hospital Friday evening, Oliver mentioned.

Tellier’s household introduced his dying on social media, Al.com reported.

“Our boy, Caden Tellier has met Jesus head to head. We admire your entire prayers, and we covet them for the laborious days forward,” their assertion mentioned. “Everybody who is aware of Caden has recognized kindness, generosity and love, and true to his nature, he’s giving of himself yet another time. Lives have been touched by the way in which he lived and now lives might be saved by way of his passing.”

Oliver confirmed to the information web site that Tellier was an organ donor.

“There are not any phrases to explain how we really feel as a college group and household,” Oliver wrote Saturday evening in a press release on the varsity’s Fb web page. “Caden won’t ever be forgotten for who he was and what he means to Morgan Academy.”

The college is canceling all sports activities actions for the approaching week, together with this Friday’s scheduled soccer recreation at Wilcox Academy, Oliver mentioned.