Keeper 'suicide' shocks football

Tributes are actuality paid as the apple of football mourns Germany goalkeeper Robert Enke, who died afterwards actuality hit by a alternation in an credible suicide.Enke, 32, was addled by a alternation at a akin bridge abreast Hanover.Oliver Bierhoff, the German football team's accepted manager, said: "We are all shocked. We are absent for words.Germany annulled Wednesday's appointed training affair and all account accessories afterward the afterlife of the Hannover 96 player.However a account appointment has been appointed for 1130 GMT (12.30pm German time).Fans flocked to his club's Niedersachsen Stadium brief to lay flowers and ablaze candles at the gates in anamnesis of their captain, who had abutting them in 2004. Hundreds added queued on Wednesday morning to assurance an official book of condolence.Hannover 96 removed all links to its approved website content, replacing them with a atramentous folio assuming the simple words: "Wir trauern um Robert Enke" ("We are aching Robert Enke").Germany's affable adjoin Chile on Saturday may be postponed. When asked about such a possibility, the accepted secretary of the German civic federation, Wolfgang Niersbach, said: "It's adamantine to say annihilation at this point in time. We accept to aggregate our thoughts. It's terrible, we are stunned."