Drama about the German national goalkeeper: Ann-Katrin Berger has cancer again

Created: 08/24/2022, 09:59 am

By: Florian Schimak

Ann-Katrin Berger (2nd from left) is suffering from cancer again.

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Ann-Katrin Berger is suffering from thyroid cancer again.

The EM heroine has to fight again.

She gets a lot of support from her teammates.

Munich/London – You can see how close joy and sorrow are in football to each other almost every weekend.

But now Ann-Katrin Berger has suffered a stroke of fate that is not of a sporting nature.

The national keeper, who was not used at the European Championships in England, is suffering from cancer – for the second time.

She was again diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

Berger has fought this difficult battle before - and she wants to win it again after the recent shock diagnosis.

"Unfortunately, after four cancer-free years, a recurrence was discovered in my thyroid," wrote the German national soccer goalkeeper on Instagram on Tuesday.

She added, "As an athlete, you have to fight every day and I will."

Ann-Katrin Berger has cancer again

Her post on Instagram was liked and commented on by many EM colleagues.

Alex Popp and Lina Magull or colleagues from their club FC Chelsea commented with hearts and encouraging words.

You know the story behind the post: In November 2017, the then 27-year-old was diagnosed with an aggressive form of thyroid cancer.

At that time, Ann-Katrin Berger played for Birmingham City.

She actually went to training the next day, two weeks later she had a six and a half hour surgery.

"The feeling of falling asleep and not knowing what was happening was intense," she said in an interview last year.

This was followed by a highly unpleasant radio-iodine therapy.

The treatment was successful and she made her comeback on February 4, 2018.

"It was one of the biggest challenges in my life.

She shaped me, and it made me bigger, stronger and more ambitious," she told

at the time .

Now she works "closely with the club doctor and a specialist in London," wrote Berger, "my treatment will begin this week."

She is "confident" that this will hit as well as the first time.

She wants to lead her fight publicly to be an inspiration to others affected.

Drama about EM heroine: goalkeeper Berger wants to fight again after cancer diagnosis

Berger was missing from the squad for the upcoming game in the World Cup qualifiers, and the DFB cited “private reasons” for this.

Now the goalkeeper chose to go public and told her fans that the cancer is back.

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In 2017, the bad diagnosis shocked her severely, but did not knock her down.

“A psychologist was also present when we talked to the doctor.

You knew what to tell me right away," she reported in 2021. She only had two questions: "My first was whether I was going to die.

The second question is whether I can play football again if I don't die.” She did that impressively.

There was also a moving message from Chelsea to Berger.

"We're all behind you Ann," the Blues tweeted on Tuesday.

Behind her club put a blue heart.