Marius Wolf has earned himself a regular place at Borussia Dortmund in the past few weeks and with his mentality he has played a part in BVB's current winning streak. He had to undergo an operation during the winter break, which scared him.
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Marius Wolf has revealed that he had to undergo heart surgery at the end of last year. "I had atrial fibrillation. The heart rhythm was not normal. I noticed that clearly," said the 27-year-old in a talk show on "Ruhr Nachrichten". "It makes you queasy and weird at first because you don't know what it is."
At the beginning of October, the football professional missed two games due to circulatory problems, but then returned to the squad. Wolf was absent from Union Berlin due to an infection before BVB announced the premature end of the 2022 sporting year for the player at the beginning of November. Because of an "infection-related disturbance of the vestibular system," it said. The club did not provide any further information.
There were only three days between the onset of the symptoms and the surgical intervention. "I was told relatively quickly that I had to have the surgery, that there was no way around it as a competitive athlete," reported the full-back. Only the closest family members knew about the minimally invasive procedure in a Frankfurt special clinic, in which, according to him, partial tissue in the heart was destroyed. "If a doctor says it will go well, that's one thing. But that still doesn't take away your fear. It is and will remain an intervention on the heart," said Wolf.
According to him, the operation went smoothly and ten days later Wolf was able to train again, but initially alone. "I had to take blood thinners for a month so I wasn't allowed to play team sports," he explained. From January he was "medication-free" again and could "go through with everything," said the native of Coburg. "I would be lying if I said it's completely gone, but you're so focused on the pitch that you don't have time to think about anything else. But then there's the thought: you've played 90 minutes of football You can't be that bad."
In BVB's last away win at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (1-0), Wolf was once again on the pitch for the full distance and acted as a hard-running right-back. In the season he has already completed 20 competitive games for the black and yellow. Wolf still has an ongoing contract with Borussia Dortmund until 2024. He switched to Westphalia in the summer of 2018. Last summer he was still considered a candidate for sale, also because his contract is very well endowed and he did not always perform as expected from him.
