Berlin: Five years after German international Robert Enke's suicide, his widow says attitudes towards depression have softened in Germany, but national football chief Wolfgang Niersbach insists little has changed.

Enke, who was Germany's first-choice goalkeeper at the time, took his own life on November 10, 2009 by throwing himself under a commuter train after a six-year battle with depression. He was just 32 and it later emerged he had kept his illness secret, partly through fear of losing custody of the daughter he had adopted with his wife.