Ex-national player Wuttke dies of organ failure

Ex-national player Wolfram Wuttke dies of organ failure

03/01/2015

Former football international Wolfram Wuttke is dead. The 53-year-old died of multiple organ failure during the night of Sunday. The ex-Bundesliga professional was diagnosed with breast cancer years ago.

Multiple organ failure after liver cirrhosis
The former football international Wolfram Wuttke has died. The longtime Bundesliga professional was recently due to a multiple organ failure, which was triggered by liver cirrhosis, in a coma. As the „image“-Newspaper reports, the 53-year-old died in a hospital at night on Sunday. He had only been artificially ventilated, his condition was considered critical, but stable. Wuttke had played for FC Schalke 04, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hamburger SV, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and 1. FC Saarbrücken a total of 112 Bundesliga games in which he scored 32 goals. He had to end his career in 1993 due to a shoulder injury.

Breast cancer diagnosis extremely rare in men
A few years ago, the former football professional had barely escaped death. He had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000. This disease is extremely rare in men, only a few hundred male patients are recorded each year in Germany. Men with the breast cancer gene BRCA2 are particularly at risk, as health experts warn. Wuttke had to undergo years of therapy. In 2011, he said in an interview with the „West German newspaper“, that diagnosis for him like „a blow in front of the bow“ has been. He had to „to deal with death“. He said then: „I had him in mind“. Now death has overtaken the former footballer. (Ad)