Facing Mortality: Former Bundesliga Keeper Georg Koch Reveals Incurable Illness

“I’m going to die” Long-time keeper Koch reports of incurable illness

May 5, 2024, 6:50 a.m

A year ago, Georg Koch retired from the football business. Now the former Bundesliga goalkeeper reports that he has an incurable illness. He will die soon, explains Koch, but the exact time has not yet been determined.

According to his statements in an interview, long-time Bundesliga goalkeeper Georg Koch is terminally ill with cancer. “I will die. But God has not yet decided when God will take me,” said the 52-year-old to “Bild am Sonntag”. “The whole mess was discovered during a routine examination. I wasn’t feeling so well before and my blood values ​​were noticeably bad,” said the former professional footballer.

Koch had played during his career at Fortuna Düsseldorf, Arminia Bielefeld, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Energie Cottbus and MSV Duisburg as well as abroad at PSV Eindhoven, Dinamo Zagreb and Rapid Vienna. In the interview he spoke openly about the consequences of his illness.

“Couldn’t bear the misery in cancer wards”

“It’s bittersweet when you’re going through your hair and suddenly you’re holding a whole clump of hair in your hands,” he said. “It now takes me half a minute to do things that you used to do in five seconds. But I have to come to terms with the illness. Complaining doesn’t help and has never been my thing!”

There are “these phases” in which he wonders why it happened to him. “But if you have been to a cancer ward yourself and you see how much misery there is and that it also affects small children and young people, then I can classify it differently and come to the conclusion: I had a great life! “, said Koch, who stated that he was “currently being treated with medication from the USA”: “I just couldn’t stand the misery in the cancer wards anymore, it was destroying me.”

Koch most recently worked in football as a goalkeeping coach and later as a team manager at Viktoria Cologne. Last year the club announced that Koch was withdrawing for personal reasons.

2024-05-05 04:50:00
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