Dead Frank Mill, world champion with Germany

Frank Mill, a member of 1990 world champion Germany, died of the aftermath of a heart attack that struck him in May, shortly after landing at Malpensa airport while in a cab. He had been immediately hospitalized and placed in a medically induced coma. After an initial improvement in condition, he had been transferred to a hospital in Essen, where he remained in care until the sad ending. He was 67 years old.

Mill began his professional career with Rot-Weiss Essen, where even as a youngster he achieved great success, establishing himself as a bomber: in the 1980/81 season, in the 2. Bundesliga, he scored an impressive 41 goals. Later, on the initiative of Jupp Heynckes, he moved on to Borussia Mönchengladbach, and then spent eight years as a star player in the Borussia Dortmund attack.

He closed his career from 1994 to 1996 in the Fortuna Düsseldorf shirt. In total, he played 387 games in the Bundesliga, scoring 123 goals, and 157 games in the 2. Bundesliga, with 88 goals. With the German Olympic national team, he won the bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Games and, in 1989, the German Cup with Dortmund.

In 1990, in Italy, he was part of the senior national team that won the World Cup by defeating Diego Armando Maradona’s Argentina in the final in Rome. After Andreas Brehme passed away in 2024, he is the second member of that historic team to pass away. Mill lived between Alverskirchen, a village between Münster and Warendorf, and Sicily, where he ran a soccer school.