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Robert Enke: Remembering former Germany and Hannover goalkeeper, 10 years on

Enke's final match was a 2-2 draw between Hannover and Hamburg on 8 November 2009. It was just two days before his death.

He had spent some time away from first-team football earlier in the season, but now he was back. And บาคาร่า even if it was an unremarkable performance, it felt like progress, as Robert's agent, Jörg Neblung, remembers.

"As you can imagine it was a really difficult situation, but we had the impression that he was getting better more and more the days before," he says.

"It was not the best game for him, but that wasn't important, he was on the pitch for 90 minutes, he came back in the VIP area after the game, we were glad at that point.

"We took him home, for all of us we were under the impression that he was getting better, that this was the turnaround. But one week later we knew this was not the truth.

"When people decide they เว็บคาสิโนออนไลน์ are going to die in the next days, they are more open, they can look you in the eyes suddenly. We thought, 'OK, he's getting healthy again, this is the turnaround'.

"But really he knew that, in the coming days, that will be the end of the pain."

For Teresa, too, the images of that final match are hard to look back on.

"There's one moment in his last game which I find very difficult," she says."It looks like he's saying goodbye and looking up to heaven. For me this picture is very painful."



While Germany's squad processed what had happened together, many of Robert's team-mates at Hannover were scattered around the world on international duty and would hear the news alone.

Karim Haggui had joined Hannover the previous summer. To him, Robert was the image of the club, and a key line of communication in his role as a central defender. He was preparing for his Tunisia side's World Cup qualifier when he took a call in his hotel room from Germany.

"It was a horrible moment, and even more difficult because I wasn't there," Haggui, 35, says 10 years on.

"I took the call on my first day away with the national team, and now had one week away from Hannover. It was hard because Robert's name and his image kept coming back to me. It was very difficult."

Haggui played a full 90 minutes in his Tunisia side's match just three days later, where an unexpected 1-0 defeat away to Mozambique cost them a place at the 2010 World Cup.




Hannover paid tribute to their goalkeeper in the home match that followed against Bayern Munich, but for Ronald Reng, a journalist who had followed Robert's career, it also felt like football didn't matter anymore.

"I wasn't interested in football after Robert's death," he says.

"What I do remember is that, weeks afterwards, there was still a note in his handwriting on Robert's kitchen wall reminding himself to order four tickets for the Bayern game for his friends."

Reng would later document Enke's story in his 2010 book A Life Too Short. It would reveal to an audience in Germany and around the world how an international goalkeeper suffered with depression throughout his entire playing career.

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