Robert Enke

[Gerry]

Robert Enke, who the German no 1 keeper has died after being hit by a train at a level crossing.

[£440,000]

That's awful. His two-year old daughter died a couple of years ago apparently.

 

looks like suicide. even worse.

 

 

BERLIN, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Germany and Hanover 96 goalkeeper Robert Enke has died after being hit by a train in an apparent suicide, local police said on Tuesday.

 

“First indications point to suicide,” a media officer for the Niedersachsen police told Reuters before adding that Enke’s body was found at a train crossing some 25-km northeast of Hanover.

 

The German soccer federation (DFB) said in a statement: “The German team has learned of the death of Robert Enke with great shock.

 

“National team coach Joachim Loew and manager Oliver Bierhoff said ‘we are all shocked, we are speechless’.”

 

DFB president Theo Zwanziger said the federation was in mourning. “Our feelings go out to his wife and family.”

 

Softly-spoken and reserved, the 32-year-old keeper won eight international caps and was in the running to play at the World Cup in South Africa next year.

 

He missed Germany’s last three qualifiers with a stomach virus and had just returned to action after almost two months out.

 

“This is a tragedy,” Hanover president Martin Kind told reporters.

 

Despite not being called up for two friendlies against Chile and Ivory Coast this month, even after Rene Adler pulled out with an eye infection, Loew had hinted Enke was still front-runner for the starting spot.

 

Enke also played club football for Borussia Moenchengladbach and Benfica and had a brief spell at Barcelona.

 

His two-year-old daughter died of a heart ailment in 2006.

 

(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann, editing by Tony Jimenez. To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

Edited November 10, 2009 by £440,000

[floyd the barber]

gjipofjigjiofjgofgjof

thats horrible...

r.i.p

[Swipe]

Just awful. Didi was speaking on SSN and said he had established himself as the number one in the last few years.

 

Obviously never got over the death of his little girl.

 

Dreadful.

 

RIP

[stressederic]

Him and his wife had adopted a little baby girl recently as well.

[Hassony]

is it a confirmed suicide? anyone else hurt in the clash?

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

f*** man. I can understand how the death of your kid could drive you to that. Poor sod

[Benzo-13]

F***in hell.

Only watched him v Hamburg the weekend.

I'm shocked.

 

RIP

[Rory Fitzgerald]

Wont say it was just his kid that did it but as a fairly recent parent I can only empathise with the pain he would have felt

[Flasher]

Poor lad, and family.

 

RIP

[Lou]

f*** man. I can understand how the death of your kid could drive you to that. Poor sod

There was a time when I'd have agreed with you 100 percent. However my boss's father committed suicide and he has very differing views on the act - which he regards as selfish.

I guess I can see both points of view. We cannot imagine what turmoil that poor man's head was in. On the other hand, he's left a spouse and another child to cope alone.

Either way - it's a very sad situation

[Murphman]

There was a time when I'd have agreed with you 100 percent. However my boss's father committed suicide and he has very differing views on the act - which he regards as selfish.

I guess I can see both points of view. We cannot imagine what turmoil that poor man's head was in. On the other hand, he's left a spouse and another child to cope alone.

Either way - it's a very sad situation

 

 

Utterly ridiculous and ironic in the extreme.

[Buzz]

Very, very, sad news. R.I.P.

[Lou]

Utterly ridiculous and ironic in the extreme.

But made from the point of view of someone who was left without a father and who had to watch his mother struggle alone. I don't think it's for us to pass judgement - on the person who committed suicide or the person(s) left to deal with the mess

[Leo No.8]

I think very few people who commit suicide are in their right mind at the time.

 

Apparently he suffered from depression which is an awful, debilitating illness which can make people take their own lives even if despite the kind of personal tragedy he had suffered they have much to live for, as Enke surely did.

 

I'm a very positive person who tends not to worry about things, but people close to me have suffered from depression and I know its a terrible thing to have to deal with; its not something you can just snap out of even if it makes sense to.

 

As Rory said, as a fairly recent parent I can undestand how losing your little one would crush you completely and utterly. If he was already the type of person who could be prone to depression and had that happen to him, its a recipe for disaster.

 

RIP Robert Enke; I only hope you are with your little girl now somewhere better than this world, which can be so desperately cruel and unfair sometimes.

Edited November 11, 2009 by Leo No.8

[Sion]

Apparently he suffered from depression before the death of his daughter

[The Hitman]

That's a horrific story,it really is.

 

Thoughts are with the family.

 

YNWA

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

There was a time when I'd have agreed with you 100 percent. However my boss's father committed suicide and he has very differing views on the act - which he regards as selfish.

I guess I can see both points of view. We cannot imagine what turmoil that poor man's head was in. On the other hand, he's left a spouse and another child to cope alone.

Either way - it's a very sad situation

I agree with this too - suicide is exrtemely selfish. But losing your child can only be the worst imaginable thing possible. I doubt he did what he did lightly.

 

Bloody horrible for those he left behind

[Murphman]

But made from the point of view of someone who was left without a father and who had to watch his mother struggle alone. I don't think it's for us to pass judgement - on the person who committed suicide or the person(s) left to deal with the mess

 

 

I have first hand experience of this, the people left behind suffer agonies for sure. But nowhere near the agonies of the person who took their own life because they could take no more of whatever demons ruined their life. The word selfish in that context is totally inappropriate, they are depression victims, really sick people who carry as much blame for their own death as a car crash victim or a cancer sufferer. One thing they're not is selfish.

[Flight]

Apparently he suffered from depression before the death of his daughter

 

 

That's tragic. The poor guy and deepest sympathies to his family.

 

RIP

[budgie]

RIP. Horrific story that puts things we worry about into context.

[Snookie]

horrible horrible.

Thoughts with his family

RIP.

[Candystore]

Just read this:

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/foo...et=0&page=1

 

So, so sad

[£440,000]

Hannover 96's website just has a black front page expressing their sadness. The rest of the site is offline. Seems fitting.

[stressederic]

Just read this:

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/foo...et=0&page=1

 

So, so sad

 

In May, they adopted Leila - but his fears for the new child, however healthy, piled unforeseen pressures on the goalkeeper.

 

"He didn't want to seek professional help any more, and he didn't want it because he was afraid that it would all come out -and that we would lose Leila," said his widow.

 

"It was the fear about what people would say about a child with a depressive father. And I always told him - don't worry. Right to the end he cared lovingly for Leila."

 

Ms Enke's repressed tears broke out when she accepted that her husband's suicide was a kind of personal defeat.

 

"We thought that we could do it all, that with love everything was possible. But sometimes it's not enough."

 

God that's heartbreaking.