After saving surgery

Kicker: “My heart beats for soccer again”

Nico Löffler (left) will be able to chase the leather again after the successful operation in the heart surgery department - thanks to Dominik Wiedemann.(Bild: Molnar Attila)

Thanks to a life-saving heart operation, a young striker from Wiener Viktoria will be able to chase the ball again! A top St. Pölten surgeon had to use a special procedure to achieve this. 

It all began on vacation in Egypt - with an initial stabbing pain and then a dull ache! "I instinctively felt that something very serious was going on in my body," recalls 27-year-old Nico Löffler - a powerful midfielder and a mainstay of the Wiener Viktoria club coached by soccer legend Toni Polster.