Wolfsburg players held a minute's silence at their Portuguese training camp on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the tragic death of their team-mate Junior Malanda.

"Forever in our hearts. Rest in peace Junior!" the club wrote on their English language Twitter account while Wolfsburg players wore green hearts on their training tops with Malanda's number 19 at their winter camp in the resort of Lagos on Portugal's Algarve.

"When we look back one year, it was a very difficult time for the team and for VfL. Junior still plays a major role in all of our thoughts and that will continue to be the case," Wolfsburg's sporting director Klaus Allofs told the club's website.

The young Belgian was just 20 when he was killed in a car accident on a motorway in western Germany on January 10, 2015.

He was sitting on the back seat of the car, without a seat belt, when it crashed off the road.