Woman Stabs German Soccer Player
A woman who can neither hear nor speak stabbed a member of the Hamburg SV soccer team Wednesday while he sat in the stands during an indoor tournament.
Oliver Moeller, 25, an amateur player under contract with the Bundesliga club Hamburg, was rushed to a nearby hospital for surgery. Doctors said the outer skin of his liver was damaged, but his injuries are not life-threatening.
A woman wielding an eight-inch kitchen knife was overpowered by another spectator and arrested.
Klaus Arendt, a police supervisor on duty, said the 28-year-old woman was still being questioned. Police did not know the woman’s motive and did not release her name.
Gerhard Meyer-Vorfelder, president of the Stuttgart club, said it would “certainly have consequences (on security) at future indoor tournaments,” where players often sit next to spectators.
The attack was the second stabbing of a sports figure in Germany in less than a year. Monica Seles was stabbed in the back in Hamburg on April 30.
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