Football: chemotherapy for Sébastien Haller who will be absent for several months
Ivory Coast striker Sebastien Haller.
February 23, 2022 in the jersey of Ajax Amsterdam.
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Dortmund's Ivorian striker Sébastien Haller's latest medical results revealed a malignant testicular tumor on Saturday July 30.
He will have to undergo chemotherapy which will keep him away from the field for several months.
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Borussia Dortmund will have to do without its new recruit Sébastien Haller, suffering from a tumor in the testicles, for "several months", announced the German club.
Operated last week, the 28-year-old Ivorian international underwent histological examinations, the results of which revealed a malignant testicular tumor.
The attacker must therefore undergo chemotherapy treatment.
“
Sébastien will now receive the best possible treatment,” announced Sebastian Kehl, Sporting Director of Dortmund.
The chances of recovery are very good.
We wish him and his family much strength and optimism and our thoughts are with him during this difficult time
.”
Sébastien Haller, who has just joined the vice-champion of Germany from Ajax Amsterdam for around 31 million euros, learned of the
diagnosis on July 18 during the
Yellow and Black summer camp in Bad Ragaz in Swiss.
Haller, the most expensive striker in club history, was to replace star Erling Haaland who left for Manchester City.
The only top striker in Dortmund's squad is currently the promising 17-year-old Youssoufa Moukoko.
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