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Newcastle coach Jaissle: Tumour and injury setbacks shaped him

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Newcastle United coach Matthias Jaissle has said he suffered a serious illness as a child which shaped him along with a number of injury setbacks that forced him to end his playing career at young age. "I had a tumour when I was five years old in the neck so I couldn't move my neck anymore.

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