More than 500 people have turned out for the funeral of a Wellington teenager who died after a club rugby game earlier this month.
Daniel Baldwin's funeral was being held at Wellington Football Club in Hataitai this morning.
Five hundred seats set up in the club rooms were filled and others gathered in a room below to watch the ceremony on a screen.
Daniel displayed concussion symptoms and left the field near the end of a colts age-group game between his Wellington club and Paremata Plimmerton at Ngati Toa Domain on May 13.
The 19-year-old's condition deteriorated rapidly. He was rushed to Wellington Hospital, where he had brain surgery and spent the days since in an induced coma.
Daniel died with his family - parents Len and Eva, and brothers Stefan and Markus - girlfriend, and other family and friends at his bedside.
The family asked people to give money to the SPCA and Wellington Free Ambulance in lieu of flowers.
Daniel dreamed of becoming a police dog handler and was studying psychology, statistics and criminology at Victoria University.
