Bob Marley and football: things you don't know about BOB

 Bob Marley

 In May 1977, during a football match with journalists in Paris, Bob Marley injured his right foot and was diagnosed with melanoma in his big toe.  He was operated on in July 1977 and thought he was out of the woods.  In 1978, the album Kaya was released, then Survival in 1979, which is considered by many musical specialists to be his most accomplished album.  Before and after Survival, Bob Marley made several trips to Africa and gave a few concerts on this continent, notably on the occasion of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980.

 At the beginning of 1980, the album Uprising was released and it was during the Uprising Tour that Bob Marley fell ill in Central Park on September 21, 1980. Doctors gave Bob Marley less than a month to live,  her cancer was generalized.  Bob still performs the concert on September 23 in Pittsburgh, before the tour is definitively canceled.  Bob Marley will never set foot again either in the studio or on stage.

 No longer having much hope of getting out of it, and on opinions that were not really unanimous, Bob Marley was then treated, from November 1980, in the clinic of the controversial Dr Issels at the Ringberg-Klinik  , in Bavaria (Germany).  The "revolutionary" treatment of this doctor not having produced the expected effects, Bob Marley is repatriated to Jamaica to live his last moments there.  It was during a stopover in Miami that Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981, at the age of thirty-six.  He was buried on May 21 in his native village of Nine Miles, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica.  His state funeral in Kingston and his repatriation to Nine Miles where he rests today brought together hundreds of thousands of people.