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Ricksen takes the fight for his life to ALS
October 3 &#; In September the year-old former Dutch international Fernando Ricksen was diagnosed with the terminal nerve disease ALS.
A year later, the former football Wildman with a best-selling autobiography under his belt, has become the face of the fight against the killer disease.
Fernando ricksen interview answers
Interview extracted from FIFA Weekly
How are you doing today?
Fernando Ricksen: As is to be expected given the circumstances. Of course I was shocked at first and I initially tried to block it out, but that only made things worse.
Now I&#;ve adapted to the illness much better.
How have you done that?
I found a way of coping with it all much better. For example, I spent the last three months in Turkey and that has done me a lot of good.
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Prior to that I was tired all the time and had the first symptoms of the disease – difficulties speaking, swallowing and breathing. I gradually lost control of my muscles. But after spending a while close to the se