The once great football icon and striker of the Czech national team or Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt has problems with alcohol once more. Thirty-seven-year-old Martin Fenin in an interview with the German newspaper Bild admitted that following returning from the psychiatric hospital he fell back into drinking once more. “Yes, I’m drinking once more. Every day,” says the former soccer player, who has tried several times to restart his once great career in recent years.
At the same time, it is only three months since Fenin left Červený Dvůr. His football friends Tomáš Ujfaluši and Milan Baroš arranged for him to be treated at a clinic specializing in addiction to addictive substances and pathological gambling when they learned regarding his problems. However, Fenin might not last long without alcohol.
“It’s been non-stop since I left the clinic,” the footballer explained to the newspaper. “I’ll drink myself to death sooner or later,” added Fenin. The interest from the German press proves what a star he once was in Germany. In his debut for Eintracht Frankfurt, he managed to score three goals and played 96 matches in the Bundesliga.
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Of course, fans also remember him for his alcoholic escapades and wild parties. In 2008, he set fire to his attic apartment near Frankfurt am Main, where he worked, while barbecuing. His drunken fight from that time, which took place in front of a bar in the center of Prague, is also known. In the autumn of 2011, the media were once more interested in his fall from the window of a hotel in Chotěbuz, Germany, where he had transferred to a second division team. Fenin claimed at the time that he was under the influence of strong pills. In May 2013, a staggering Fenin attacked an amateur photographer in Pařížská Street in Prague.
Fenin last played professional football for the second division team FK Varnsdorf in the 2017/2018 season. He tried to restart his career during his engagement in Prague’s Řeporyje, where he played several matches of the Prague I. A class. But then he went back to drinking. His wife left him and took their three-year-old daughter with her. “I watch YouTube all day and drink Jägermeister to fight the sadness. I love my daughter so much…” says the former soccer star today.
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