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#8 Marco Russ fights cancer and wins
In April of 2016, Eintracht Frankfurt captain Marco Russ failed a routine drug test ahead of a must-win game against fellow Bundesliga strugglers SV Darmstadt. When he adamantly rejected claims he had been taking performance-enhancing drugs - and when Police searches of his home and locker room turned up empty - the authorities urged him to undergo a thorough clinical examination.
You see, the only other way the test would have returned positive was if Russ was carrying a tumour.
The examination confirmed it - testicular cancer - but the evening after the club formally announced his diagnosis, Russ led his team out for the first leg of their relegation play-off against Nuremberg, many feared that would be his last ever match.
While he underwent intense chemotherapy, Frankfurt showcased the attributes that have led to many calling the Bundesliga the best league in the world and extended his contract till 2019.
And then, in February 2017, 285 days after his last game... Marco Russ strode out onto the Frankfurt pitch... 51,000 chanting his name.
He'd fought cancer, that most crippling of ailments, and he'd won. If that isn't worthy of celebration, what the hell is?
