Article 5HYVF Kiyan Prince’s legacy lives on for Queens Park Rangers in Fifa 21

Kiyan Prince’s legacy lives on for Queens Park Rangers in Fifa 21

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Paul MacInnes
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The most promising talent in the QPR academy would have been 30 this year and his life is commemorated in the video game to help provide inspiration to young people

Promotional materials for the latest player to be added to Fifa 21 show Kiyan Prince scoring a goal. He takes a shot with his left foot, over the lunge of a despairing defender, and watches it fly into the roof of the net. Running off in celebration with his arms wide, he shouts in delight. Then he turns and shows his shirt to the crowd: Queens Park Rangers' number 30.

Prince, who was once the most promising talent in the QPR academy, would have been 30 this year, but in 2006 he died at the gates of his school in north London. In a notorious incident Prince was stabbed in the heart with a penknife as he tried to break up a fight. The killer, who called the knife a little toy", was 16.

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