Former Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has revealed on live television that he is battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
The current Netherlands boss made the announcement on Dutch programme Humberto while promoting his new film, LOUIS. Van Gaal's fight against prostate cancer is featured in the film but the diagnosis had been kept a secret from his players. "In each period during my time as manager of the National Team I had to leave in the night to go to the hospital without the players finding it out until now. While thinking I was healthy. But.. I am not," the 70-year-old revealed.
Van Gaal is set to lead the Oranje at the World Cup in Qatar later this year and further explained that he has undergone 25 treatments with the hope of beating the illness. "I think you don't tell people you work with like that because it might influence their choices, their decisiveness," added Van Gaal, via Voetbal International.
