GERMANY'S top goalkeeper Robert Enke died last night after being hit by a train.
The 32-year-old - set to star for his country at next year's World Cup - was fatally injured at a level crossing near Hannover.
Early reports suggested troubled Enke may have killed himself.
The Hannover 96 captain was devastated when his two-year-old daughter Lara died of a rare heart ailment in 2006.
He leaves behind his wife, Teresa, and an eight-month-old daughter the couple had adopted in May.
Last night, his club president Martin Kind was reported as having described the keeper as "unstable" in recent weeks.
Enke was struck by a regional train travelling between Norddeich and Hannover at a railway crossing in Neustadt am Rubenberge and died at the scene.
A German police spokesman confirmed late last night: "The victim is national team goalkeeper Robert Enke from Hannover 96.
"The first police indications are that it was a suicide."
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The 32-year-old - set to star for his country at next year's World Cup - was fatally injured at a level crossing near Hannover.
Early reports suggested troubled Enke may have killed himself.
The Hannover 96 captain was devastated when his two-year-old daughter Lara died of a rare heart ailment in 2006.
He leaves behind his wife, Teresa, and an eight-month-old daughter the couple had adopted in May.
Last night, his club president Martin Kind was reported as having described the keeper as "unstable" in recent weeks.
Enke was struck by a regional train travelling between Norddeich and Hannover at a railway crossing in Neustadt am Rubenberge and died at the scene.
A German police spokesman confirmed late last night: "The victim is national team goalkeeper Robert Enke from Hannover 96.
"The first police indications are that it was a suicide."
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Absolute humiliating, degrading treatment of this suicide through the mass medias over here!!!
ReplyDeleteDidn't expect how low these assholes can go!!
Absolutely disgusting!!
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2HerrB/
ReplyDeleteIt is the way of the world unfortunately these days!
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http://11freunde.de/bundesligen/125581
ReplyDeletehttp://www.spiegelfechter.com/wordpress/1147/der-freitod-eines-torwarts-und-die-ethik
http://www.coffeeandtv.de/2009/11/11/sprachlosigkeit-die-nachsten-tage/
three blog entries in German about that
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Very sad news and a tragic loss for his family
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2Longy/
ReplyDeleteIndeed. HerrB has supplied some of the usual crap tabloid coverage. Do these people think they will not end up paying for it?
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