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Venezuela’s Lavoura killed in Portugal car crash |
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August 14, 2000
LISBON (AP) - Pedro Lavoura, a 26-year-old Venezuelan midfielder playing for Portugal's Sporting Braga, was killed Sunday when his car veered off the road and slammed into a wall, police said. Two other passengers also died in the accident that occured around 7 a.m. (0600 GMT) near the northern city of Aveiro, about 215 kilometers (130 miles) north of Lisbon. A police spokesman said one of them was Lavoura's neighbor, 24-year-old Alexandre Timoteo. The other victim had not yet been identified, the spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity. The three men were ejected from the car, a Porsche. The engine went up in flames about 50 meters (55 yards) away from the wall, according to police. It was not immediately known who was driving. Born in Caracas, Lavoura started playing in Portugal at Anadia, a second-division club, in 1994. He moved to the League through Academica in 1997, joining Braga last year. |