Netherlands national football team coach Louis van Gaal has revealed that he has prostate cancer and is currently receiving treatment, but he still intends to lead the national football team in the World Cup following seven months in the World Cup in Qatar. The 70-year-old told Dutch channel Arte that the players “don’t realize it”, adding that he underwent 25 sessions of radiotherapy, including during the Dutch national team’s training camps.
The former Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester United coach, who began treatment last year following being diagnosed in 2020, said the players “think I’m in good health, but I’m not.” “This is part of my life,” he added in an interview on the occasion of the upcoming release of a movie regarding his life called “Louis.”
Van Gaal, who contracted the coronavirus last week, broke his hip in 2021 following falling off a bike.
