Uwe Seeler cancels appointments before his 85th birthday: “Doesn’t feel good”

Football idol Uwe Seeler has canceled all appointments in the run-up to his 85th birthday next Friday. The national team’s honorary captain cannot attend scheduled interviews for health reasons. Seeler, who had just recovered from a fall at his house in September, is not feeling well.

“Unfortunately, Uwe has to cancel the scheduled appointments for this week,” said Seeler’s wife Ilka SID on the phone: “He’s not feeling well. The situation is not critical, but the doctor urgently advised him to take it easy.”

Seeler, who was already unable to keep appointments at the weekend, had repeatedly struggled with health problems in recent years. In 2020, the Hamburg idol suffered a broken hip in a serious fall.

He was also troubled by the consequences of a no-fault car accident eleven years ago, and the former striker and vice world champion from 1966 was plagued by back problems. In 2017, Seeler was successfully fitted with a pacemaker.

The fall in his house, in which he was cut, made headlines last week.

“The doctors really had something to sew for me,” said Seeler Hamburger Morgenpost: “I looked like Quasimodo, I hid at home and only went out the door again when it had healed to some extent.”

Uwe Seeler “was bleeding like a pig”

According to the newspaper, Seeler had overlooked a step and fell on September 12 after having had a coffee with a tray in his hand.

“I fell straight into the broken porcelain,” said Seeler, who, according to his wife Ilka, “was bleeding like a pig”. Seeler took blood-thinning agents, he was treated in the hospital, but was fine again afterwards.

“That was really tough, so much more could have happened. You get scared,” said Ilka Seeler: “We all lovingly cared for Uwe and made new bandages every day.”

But the Hamburg honorary citizen had “naturally received good healing meat and – as in earlier days when he was active – an iron will to get well again”.