CNN
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A top-flight Bulgarian soccer team has apologized after it held a minute’s silence before its recent match to mourn a former player who the club mistakenly believed had died.
Before Arda Kardzhali’s game against Levski Sofia in Bulgaria’s First League on Sunday, both sets of players lined up near the center of the field to honor Arda’s former player, Petko Ganchev.
But before the game had finished, Arda published a statement on Facebook apologizing to Ganchev saying they had “received wrong information about his death.”
“The management of PFC Arda would like to express a huge apology to the former Arda player Petko Ganchev…
