After tumor
Comeback in the cup? Bayern goalkeeper back
10.02.2025 – 6:55 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
In the second division, footballer Mala Grohs was allowed to go back after an operation because of a malignant tumor. Your comeback with the German champion is getting closer.
Mala Grohs could celebrate her comeback on Wednesday (6.30 p.m.) at the DFB Cup quarter-finals of FC Bayern against Eintracht Frankfurt. Trainer Alexander Straus believes that the 23-year-old is possible. “Yes, there is a chance,” said the coach of the German champion before the duel with the Bundesliga leader.
It was only on Sunday that Grohs played her first competitive game for the second team of Munich women after her tumor. In the 2-0 win against VfL Bochum in the 2nd division, she stood again between the posts. However, Straus emphasized that the recently strong ENA Mahmutovic was an option for the cup game. The 21-year-old celebrated her debut in the German national team last year and most recently convinced in the Bayern goal.
Straus has no doubt about Grohs’ fitness. The goalkeeper made her diagnosis public in November and underwent an operation in December. “After what Mala has been going through the past few months, that’s not just a physical thing. I look at the whole person. . He said about the health of his player: “She is doing well, she is fantastic.”