{"id":44324,"date":"2022-09-09T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/president-infantino-wishes-haller-a-full-and-speedy-recovery\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T17:30:09","slug":"president-infantino-wishes-haller-a-full-and-speedy-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/president-infantino-wishes-haller-a-full-and-speedy-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"President Infantino Wishes Haller a Full and Speedy Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"press-body-in\">\n                            <span><br \/>\n                                                            ZURICH, Switzerland, September 9, 2022\/APO Group\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire forward Sebastien Haller was diagnosed with testicular cancer in July. After announcing the sad news, the 28-year-old forward received many messages of sympathy and encouragement from around the world, including a letter from FIFA (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.FIFA.com\" rel=\"noopener\">www.<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/FIFA.com\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA.com<\/a>) President Gianni Infantino, enclosed with a shirt and ball.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of both myself and the international football community, I would like to extend my sincere wishes to you for a full and speedy recovery, and hope to see you back to full health very soon,\u201d wrote President Infantino.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/FIFA.com\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA.com<\/a> later spoke to the Ivorian international, who has won 15 caps to date. \u201cI\u2019m very well. The treatment is going well and luckily I\u2019m able to train every day,\u201d commented Haller, who said he was moved by the huge amount of support he has had since announcing his illness. \u201cIt was a shock but it\u2019s been positive. I never expected to get such a response or have so much compassion shown to me, and not just from the football world. These are things that bring us all together and it\u2019s given me a huge amount of strength in facing up to this challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter whether they\u2019re Ivoirian, Dutch, French, German, English or whatever; everyone who\u2019s given me their support from near or far is a source of energy for my family, friends and I,\u201d added Haller. \u201cAll I can say to them is that I\u2019ll be doing everything I can to come back as quickly as possible and to play a decisive role for my club and my country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A team-mate of Haller\u2019s at Eintracht Frankfurt between 2017 and 2019, FIFA Director Member Associations Africa Gelson Fernandes added some words of support of his own to President Infantino\u2019s message. \u201cI know Gelson very well but it wasn\u2019t something I was expecting at all,\u201d said Haller. \u201cI just focus on my role as a player and a person, without realising the impact that it has. I\u2019m proud and happy about what they had to say to me. They\u2019ve shown real humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haller was informed of his illness at the end of a superb season with Ajax Amsterdam, one he finished as the Eredivisie\u2019s leading scorer with 21 goals to help the club clinch a second successive league title. His move to Borussia Dortmund in early July generated a lot of headlines and expectation among the German club\u2019s fans, who welcomed him with open arms and hope to see him in the yellow and black jersey before too long.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fifa.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/president-infantino-wishes-haller-a-full-and-speedy-recovery?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH, Switzerland, September 9, 2022\/APO Group\/ &#8212; C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire forward Sebastien Haller was diagnosed with testicular cancer in July. After announcing the sad news, the 28-year-old forward received many messages of sympathy and encouragement from around the world, including a letter from FIFA (www.FIFA.com) President Gianni Infantino, enclosed with a shirt and ball. \u201cOn behalf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}