Personal Life
Handballer Ulrike Stange is the girlfriend of Per Mertesacker.
In November 2006, Mertesacker created the "Per Mertesacker Foundation". This foundation was created to support the widow of Robert Enke, and is targeted at those suffering from depression. Under this foundation Mertesacker created a football team called "Mertesacker & Friends" who, yearly, played charity matches to help support their cause. The first charity match took place on 9 June 2007 between "Mertesacker & Friends" and the "Pocher Comedian Allstars" in Rudolf Kalweit stadium, in Hanover. In 2008 and 2009 matches were played against a team called "Philipp Lahm & Friends", a team created and chosen by Philipp Lahm. In 2011 they played against "Gastrokicker-Nord".
Read more about this topic: Per Mertesacker
Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or life:
“If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that’s none of the law’s business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, he’d better have the rooms available.”
—Unknown. Charlotte Observer (October 6, 1989)