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Marika Domanski Lyfor’s brain tumor is malignant and will not be surgically removed, writes the Swedish Football Association.
It was in April that the news came that the women’s national team’s 63-year-old national team manager had suffered from a brain tumor. Marika Domanski Lyfors has since been operated on and after follow-up tests it was found that the tumor cannot be operated on. She will immediately begin further treatment, the association states.
“The entire SvFF and all players and leaders in the women’s national team are of course extremely taken by this heavy announcement. We are all with Marika in this tough time and together will give our full support throughout her treatment,” says SvFF’s head of football Kim Kallstrom.
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Marika Domanski Lyfors was the national team captain for the Swedish women’s national team between 1996 and 2005, with the World Cup silver in 2003 as the big highlight.
In 2007, she made a short stay as national team captain in China before returning to work for the Swedish Football Association. After all the years as national team manager, she has had various roles in the women’s national team’s operations for a total of around 30 years.
– It is a person who means everything to me and everything to women’s football. I just keep my fingers crossed, like the rest of Football Sweden, and hope that everything will go well, said the former national team midfielder Caroline Victory to Aftonbladet after the announcement that Domanski Lyfors had fallen ill.
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