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Norbert Pflippen has asked the Almighty to his - the soccer-a-kind friendship: 'I have just said above: you're not a 8:7 lead, but help me to create the balance. "
Many times the player consultant was close to death, has survived a coma after car accident or inflammation of the brain, repeatedly ran fought. A doctor told him the "nickname cat - who also have nine lives."
Now it's stomach cancer - according Pflippen "the eighth goal of the upstairs and the biggest hammer. After him two months previously, only two benign tumors were removed in the neck, he had to on 3 December at the Dusseldorf University Hospital is once again operated on, "six and a half hours, the stomach is almost completely gone."
After 13 days he was discharged. "I only need chemo times not," says the 62-year-old, who sees itself as a fighter, but sometimes the courage to leave. So when he wakes up optimistic, "but then come the pain. Then I think either you manage it now alone or you go into the box, "he says in his blunt Art
In the Advent season, he has seen many donations on television, for example, the diseased with leukemia 20 years ago (and healed) star tenor José Carreras. Pflippen: "As I have said to me: Every day you're alive, you will donate something to such organizations."
The priorities of the once bustling maker naturally have shifted. "Whether I again make a transfer of players or not, but no matter. That one has friends, makes up life. I've learned to appreciate the human things. "The fact that he has called FC manager Michael Meier and encouraged, or that ex-boxing association vice Lothar oestrus visited him, which pleased him very much. Or an invitation by former national coach Vogts, a friend from the early days of Moenchengladbach, "Berti said, come over, celebrate Christmas Eve with me and my son." There can be two views of experts still advise the tactics of how to "since the up "the balance made ...
