{"id":300880,"date":"2023-12-18T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T10:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=300880"},"modified":"2023-12-18T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T10:24:01","slug":"michael-schumachers-old-manager-i-have-no-hope-of-seeing-him-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/racing\/f1\/michael-schumachers-old-manager-i-have-no-hope-of-seeing-him-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Schumacher&apos;s old manager: &apos;I have no hope of seeing him again&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Michael Schumacher&#8217;s old manager reveals why he has &#8216;no hope&#8217; of ever seeing him again, 10 years on from his tragic skiing accident which left his former boss &#8216;mourning like a dog&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>December 29 will mark a decade since Michael Schumacher&#8217;s tragic skiing injury<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>The Formula One legend has not been seen publicly since the accident in France<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>His old manager Willi Weber reveals why he has &#8216;no hope&#8217; of seeing him again\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michael Schumacher&#8217;s former manager Willi Weber has admitted he has &#8216;no hope&#8217; of seeing the Formula One legend again, after a decade of &#8216;no positive news&#8217; following his tragic skiing accident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher, who won seven world championships in Formula One before his retirement, has not appeared publicly since suffering a serious head injury while skiing in the French resort of Meribel in 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The German was placed in a medically induced coma and has since been cared for\u00a0by his wife Corinna and a team of medical staff at the family&#8217;s Lake Geneva home.<\/p>\n<p>Weber, 81, was Schumacher&#8217;s manager until 2012 and helped turn the Formula One icon into one of the highest earning sports stars in history at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Business aside, the former talent scout and manager held a close relationship with Schumacher and his family, having also represented the driver&#8217;s brother Ralf in Formula One until November 2005.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/18\/09\/79077833-12876283-image-a-38_1702890190500.jpg\" height=\"461\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Michael Schumacher&#8217;s old manager Willi Weber has admitted that he has &#8216;no hope&#8217; of seeing the F1 legend again, after a decade of &#8216;no positive news&#8217; following his tragic skiing accident<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/18\/09\/79077791-12876283-image-a-39_1702890195361.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Weber (right) was Schumacher&#8217;s manager until 2012, a year before the Formula One icon (left) suffered a life-threatening head injury while skiing on holiday\u00a0in the French resort of Meribel<\/p>\n<p>Opening up on Schumacher&#8217;s accident, Weber revealed that he grieved &#8216;like a dog&#8217; upon hearing the tragic news and now has no hope of seeing the 54-year-old again.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Cologne Express: &#8216;When I think of Michael now, unfortunately I don&#8217;t have anymore hope that I will see him again. No positive news after ten years.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether he regrets not visiting his former prot\u00e9g\u00e9 immediately after the incident, Weber added: &#8216;Of course, I regret that very much and blame myself. I should have visited Michael in the hospital. I mourned like a dog after his accident.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/18\/09\/79077803-12876283-image-a-40_1702890200741.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>The former manager, now aged 81, is pictured\u00a0in Wiesbaden, Germany in 2018<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It hit me incredibly hard, you can imagine that. But at some point, the point came when I had to free myself from Michael and let go.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Even three or four years later, people who recognised me kept asking me: \u201cYou\u2019re Schumacher\u2019s ex-manager. How is Michael?\u201d Then I stopped trying to explain and thought, &#8220;Why doesn\u2019t anyone ask how I\u2019m doing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;For me it was clear: &#8220;Well, now it&#8217;s over. This crap needs to get out of my head&#8221;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Revealing he was &#8216;still angry&#8217; after being &#8216;kept out&#8217; of Schumacher&#8217;s inner circle, Weber astonishingly claimed\u00a0in July 2022 that the family &#8216;lied&#8217; in an effort to stop him visiting his former client.<\/p>\n<p>He told Gazzetta dello Sport last year: &#8216;It was a huge pain for me. I tried hundreds of times to contact Corinna and she didn&#8217;t answer. I called Jean Todt to ask him if I should go to the hospital and he told me to wait \u2013 &#8220;it\u2019s too early&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I called the next day, and no one answered,&#8217; he continued. &#8216;I didn&#8217;t expect behaviour like that and I&#8217;m still angry about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They kept me out, telling me, &#8220;It&#8217;s too early&#8221;, well, now it&#8217;s too late. It&#8217;s been nine years. Maybe they should just say it the way it is.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/18\/09\/79077841-12876283-image-a-41_1702890244971.jpg\" height=\"445\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Schumacher and his wife Corinna pictured on a skiing holiday in northern Italy back in 2005<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I could understand the situation initially as I always did everything I could for Michael to protect his private life. But since then, we seem to have only heard lies from them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Years after the accident, I said to myself to just look out for the family as I couldn&#8217;t change things. He was like a son to me. Even today it hurts me to talk about it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Weber appears to have changed his opinion on the matter now, having this week told the Cologne Express that he &#8216;blames himself&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>December 29 will mark exactly 10 years since Schumacher&#8217;s tragic accident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/formulaone\/article-12876283\/Michael-Schumachers-old-manager-reveals-no-hope-seeing-10-years-tragic-skiing-accident-left-former-boss-mourning-like-dog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher&#8217;s old manager reveals why he has &#8216;no hope&#8217; of ever seeing him again, 10 years on from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Schumacher&amp;apos;s old manager: &amp;apos;I have no hope of seeing him again&amp;apos; 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