Inside the German clinic Collingwood hopes will keep Jordan De Goey’s grand final dream alive
He has treated everyone from rock stars to the world’s fastest man and now Collingwood star Jordan De Goey is Munich-bound. But just who is German soft-tissue guru, Dr Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt?
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It’s a half-hour drive from Munich Airport, down the Zentralallee and then the A9 towards the centre of the Bavarian capital.
Here, on Dienerstrasse 12 you find the Alter Hof, a 12th century Gothic building and the first imperial residence of Germany.
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But these days it’s where sports stars and celebrities from across the globe go to take a leap of faith.
On the second floor, in surrounds visitors describe as more befitting of a fine art gallery, is the clinic of world-renowned soft tissue mastermind Dr Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt.
Bono, Usain Bolt, Boris Becker and Cristiano Ronaldo are among the big names down the years to have ditched traditional medical avenues and take a punt.
Max Rooke in 2007 was the first of a handful of AFL players in the years since to make the Munich mission to fix his failing hamstrings.
On Sunday night, Collingwood forward Jordan De Goey left on the same trip in the hope the man known as “Healing Hans” cannot only get him right for a potential Grand Final berth, but for the long-term.
Rooke, Mark Coughlan, Nathan Freeman, Dylan Grimes, Harley Bennell and De Goey’s teammates Ben Reid, Jamie Elliott and Darcy Moore have all been looked over by the Bayern Munich club doctor, whose treatments are considered controversial.
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Rooke has an extract of calves’ blood injected into his hamstring before playing in the Cats’ breakthrough 2007 flag.
Dr Müller-Wohlfahrt is in his late 70s, but could pass for much younger. Moore describes him as a “very funny, eccentric man with very poor English.”
“It was an interesting experience. All his nurses, he had probably 20 nurses in his clinic and they all wore perfect white head to toe,” Moore told 3AW earlier this year.
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“They were all young girls between 20 and 30 and it felt like that (a movie set). They were all walking around in perfect white and everything was perfectly clean.
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