Footballer Maxime Fleury creates a Leetchi prize pool to save his wife

Solidarity has been in full swing since a video was posted online on Maxime Fleury’s Facebook account on Friday. This French professional footballer, trained at Stade Rennais then played by the reserve team of OGC Nice, tells for three minutes “the moving story” of his wife Julia, suffering from acute myeloid leukemia since 2022, one month later their marriage.

“When we found out about this, the world collapsed. We were coming out of our honeymoon and then everything got dark,” says the 28-year-old striker, who currently plays for Mondercange, in Luxembourg’s D1. Julia then had to spend eight months in the hospital, all alone in a sterile room. “She underwent chemotherapy after chemotherapy, before having a bone marrow transplant,” continues Maxime Fleury. We thought she would make it, but unfortunately the doctors told us the transplant didn’t work. »

“I will fight to the end with your help”

So much so that in September, the doctors announced to the couple that there was “no more treatment available in France” and that Julia would, according to them, “have a life expectancy of one year”. That’s where the idea of ​​a Leetchi pot appeared: “We’ve been fighting silently together for two years, but now I have to talk about it. I need your help.” Because “the glimmer of hope” came from an “experimental treatment” at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston (Texas).

“This is the last chance to save my wife, the last treatment there is on this Earth. » And the cost of this treatment, only available in the United States, is colossal, “between 200,000 and 250,000 euros”. “I am obliged to achieve this insurmountable challenge. I will fight to the end with your help. We can all save Julia,” concludes Maxime Fleury.

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This Leetchi prize pool, notably relayed on social networks by OGC Nice and Stade Rennais, is an impressive success. In five days, it has just reached 170,000 euros this Tuesday noon, with 8,700 contributions. A surge of solidarity worthy of the touching story shared by Maxime Fleury.