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Wortley FC: Club create tribute to murder victim
A special tribute to murder victim Adam Chadwick has been created by his football teammates at Wortley FC.
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First team players at Wortley FC have named a new man of the match award after Adam.
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His teammates won their first match in the Yorkshire Old Boys Senior A division – on the weekend when Adam should have been celebrating his 21st birthday.
The "Adam Chadwick Man of the Match' award went to Wortley's centre half Adam Karran.
Club secretary Ian Thackray said: "Adam was a very good footballer and also a star clown. He joined the club when he was 11 and is sadly missed.
"The lads he played with in the first team decided they wanted the award in his name, to remember him.
"Adam was a very good player and always mucking about. He was a nice lad and didn't have a nasty streak in him.
"The award will be presented to a Wortley player after each game. I
think it is a lovely tribute".
At the end of the season, the player who has won the 'man of the match' award most times will be presented with a trophy – named after Adam.
It is expected that Adam's parents, Martin and Jackie, will present the trophy.
Father-of-one Adam, who used to play on the right side of midfield, died after being gunned down on the doorstep of his sister's home in Clifton Mount, Harehills, in June.
Police, who believe the killing may have been a case of mistaken identity, are hunting three masked men and a woman.
The man leading the hunt for the killers, Det Supt Steve Payne, is desperate to trace anyone who saw the gun gang's blue Ford Focus getaway car from the time it was stolen from Oatland Heights, Little London, on June 11 up to the day of the shooting, almost two weeks later.
Detectives want to speak to anyone who saw the three men and possibly a woman abandoning the car at the rear of houses on Chapeltown Road, Chapeltown, before running off. They tried to set the vehicle alight before fleeing down Sholebrooke Avenue.
Early on the day Adam was shot dead, a woman described as white, aged about 28, 5ft 4 to 5ins tall with dark brown hair, olive skin and dark eyes, called at several houses in Clifton Mount asking for someone called Michelle.
She wore a black fleece or cardigan over a black top.
Later that day, she again knocked on the door at the home of Adam's sister Gemma and three masked men, all in green camouflage clothing, burst in and shot Adam.
Anyone with information should ring police on 0113 241 3006 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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