Christoph Daum has been fighting cancer bravely for months. Now the former football coach was in an intensive care unit in New York.
Update from Friday, May 19, 23:06 p.m.: Coaching legend Christoph Daum has been in hospital in New York in recent days and has even been in intensive care. Now he has been discharged at the clinic.
"I spoke to his wife, Angelica, on Friday night. Christoph has left the hospital and will be on his way back to Germany as soon as possible," his friend Rolf Lövenich told the Bild newspaper. The former football coach was diagnosed with lung cancer in the summer of last year.
First report from Friday, May 19, 20:07 p.m.: Munich/New York – Great concern for Christoph Daum! The football legend, who has been battling cancer for months, is currently in an intensive care unit in the USA. "I'm in intensive care in the hospital in New York," he told RTL on Friday.
Concern for football legend: Christoph Daum is in intensive care in New York
According to information from the German Press Agency, Daum was taken to the hospital in the US metropolis because an inflammation had formed after an operation about three weeks ago. This had to be treated. However, it is expected that he will soon be able to leave the hospital and return to Germany. The former football coach was diagnosed with lung cancer in the summer of last year.
Christoph Daum has had a difficult period of suffering. Just last year, he was diagnosed with lung cancer during a routine check-up. The investigation had already taken place in the summer of 2022. In October 2022, the coaching legend went public with the diagnosis.
Christoph Daum has been fighting cancer bravely for months. Now the former football coach is in an intensive care unit in New York. © IMAGO/Pressefoto Rudel/Herbert Rudel
Daum in intensive care: Trainer made lung cancer diagnosis public in 2022
"Hello dear football fans, I would like to address you today with a very personal message: Unfortunately, I had to withdraw from the public eye in recent months because I received a cancer diagnosis as part of a routine examination," Daum wrote on his Instagram account at the time. Since then, he has been undergoing treatment.
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It wasn't until March that Daum gave an update on his therapy. At the time, he told Bild that he was "in phase two, immune therapy." His strong penchant for cigarettes probably favored the cancer, he said. After the diagnosis, he immediately quit smoking. At the time, he described defeating cancer as "wishful thinking."
Christoph Daum has cancer: Coaching icon explains how he fights illness
Even now, Daum commented again. "The moment you hear you have cancer, it's like a death sentence for you," Daum said in an interview published by RTL earlier on Friday. He couldn't believe it at the time, he emphasized, reporting that he felt so fit at the time and had a lung volume of five liters.
In the article, he had also explained what tactics he wants to use to fight against the serious disease. "This is an absolute pressing situation," Daum said. "Putting pressure on the opponent, on the opposing cells, on the cancer cells. Go on it and don't let them rest. But fight until they are worn down, until they give up and until they retreat and disappear." Or at least it is the case that he has control over his body and his life, the football coach emphasized.
According to the report, Daum exercised three to four times a week. "I had to fight again and again. I always had an opponent or an enemy. The next game you had to beat the opponent, only now I have the opponent in my body," he said and explained what he now had planned above all: "To become a sensible grandpa. That's my challenge."
Coaching legend Daum in intensive care: "I'm not to be reckoned with for the time being"
Recently, Daum has been seen less and less in public, but now the reason is known. As RTL reports, the broadcaster had been interested in an interview with the 69-year-old. "So I'm not to be reckoned with for the time being," Daum said.
