Life Veronika Ricksen brings Fernando to the final resting place Posted on February 19, 2020 1 min read Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Veronika Ricksen (33) made the last wish of her husband Fernando come true on Tuesday afternoon. The football player died five months ago at the age of 43 of ALS. “I tried to do it as well as possible for you” Veronika set the axis of her deceased football player yesterday at the RK Urnenhof in Sittard, where the footballer’s career began. She let us know via her Instagram. “Today was an important day for us,” she writes in the post. “I tried to do it as well as possible for you, as you had asked me. And to bring you back to your country as you wanted.”