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Krzysztof Nowak: Wolfgang Wolf, hard as nails during

Krzysztof Nowak: Wolfgang Wolf, hard as nails during a 248-game Bundesliga playing career for Kaiserslautern, could barely hold back the tears.

Krzysztof Nowak: Wolfgang Wolf, hard as nails during a 248-game Bundesliga playing career for Kaiserslautern, could barely hold back the tears. In November 2002, at the final home game in the old Elsterweg stadium before the move to the Volkswagen Arena, the Wolfsburg coach pushed his gravely ill player Krzysztof Nowak in a wheelchair around the pitch. By then the Pole had already been ravaged by ALS, an incurable disease of the motor nervous system.\n\nHis usual place on home matchdays was by the dugout.

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